House Speaker Paul D. Ryan holds a news conference after President Trump’s health-care bill was pulled from the floor of the House last month. One member who brought it up during the party’s weekly conference meeting was told that the language might not stay in the bill. “If you look at the text, it actually penalizes members of Congress and people in D.C.,” said Meadows, who did not explain how Congress and D.C. residents would be penalized. “Removing protections for people with preexisting conditions will go down in infamy as one of the most heartless acts of this Republican Congress,” said DCCC spokesman Tyler Law. “As proof of the repeal bill’s devastating impact, Republican members of Congress are exempting themselves from the punishment they are willing to inflict on their constituents.”

Source: Washington Post April 26, 2017 16:30 UTC