Here's why Trump should have demanded a roll call vote on the ACHA

[JimBowie1958]

I have a dumb question: Why did Ryan "pull" the vote rather than have it voted on and defeated? Is there some kind of rule that Congress cannot vote on the same bill twice or something?

The short answer is that the bill was pulled because of the optics of it not passing by a fairly large margin. Purely political strategy. Were the bill to have been voted on and not pass, that happening would have given leverage to the opposition, most notably leverage against the individuals who voted for it. Pulling the bill and not voting provides deniability to all the GOP Representatives, even though we know there are at least some ~30 of them who opposed the bill.

No, there is no such rule.

Yes, there is a rule that only one Conciliation bill can be put forward each year. The advantage of that is that Republicans in the Senate only need 51 votes to pass the bill as there are no filibusters on reconciliation bills.

 

[my2¢]

Wasn't much discussed here or I missed it but I wonder if this had anything to do with Ryan's decision or even if it was true?

Koch Brothers’ group vows millions to Republicans who vote against American Health Care Act