Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, made it clear Friday he and other conservatives still are willing to accept the House leadership’s Obamacare repeal bill, and said they would fight to amend it as it moves through the House.
“We’re gonna do what we told them we were gonna do,” Jordan said on CNN. “To say that we can’t amend it, change it and make it right, that’s not how the legislative process works.”
The White House has also cast the GOP bill as the start of a process, one that many lawmakers are hoping can become a “negotiation.”
The more the bill strays from the GOP leadership’s plan, the more difficult it might be to pass it. But Jordan said he and like-minded conservatives will be pushing hard to change it.
“We want to influence this bill, change this bill, make this bill consistent with what we told the voters we’re gonna do,” he said.
Conservatives have said the bill to pursue is one that immediately repeals Obamacare, rather than the GOP plan, which only begins to attack the law through the reconciliation process.
“I know there’s a lot of members who don’t want this binary choice,” Jordan said. “They want to weigh in and be part of the legislative process.”
