Fulfilling a key campaign pledge made by most of the more than 80 new Republican lawmakers, the House of Representatives on Wednesday night voted 245 to 189 to repeal the year-old federal healthcare law.
Some of those freshmen lawmakers, making one of their first and likely one of the biggest votes in their two-year terms, scoffed at Democrats’ notion that the repeal legislation, passed strictly along party lines, was largely symbolic.
“Shame on us if we come here and don’t do what we said we would do,” said freshman Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich....
