Conservatives ratchet up pressure to ditch Senate rules

Conservative House Republicans are ratcheting up the pressure on House and Senate GOP leaders to go back to the drawing board and write a more expansive Obamacare replacement overhaul bill and ditch the usual Senate rules that limit what Republicans can do.

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., is citing a 1964 precedent from the passage of the Civil Rights Act and a recent Supreme Court ruling to urge his Senate colleagues to overturn Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough’s findings if she rejects a broader bill that includes provisions unraveling the insurance mandate and other big parts of Obamacare that conservatives want to do away with.