The House’s narrow passage of a partial repeal of Obamacare dominated media coverage Thursday. Happening at the same time, but receiving little coverage, was the Senate’s approval of a $1.1 trillion spending bill that was far more divisive than Obamacare among Republicans in both houses of Congress.
The story is in the numbers. On Obamacare, 217 Republicans voted for partial repeal, while just 20 — a little under ten percent of the House GOP conference — voted against it.
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