Rand Paul: My Plan to Split the Repeal and Replace Bills Is Like the ‘Henry Clay Compromise’

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MacCALLUM: "You are sort of the outlier in that you have put out some proposals today that you yourself said went over like a lead balloon. Many of them are about repealing in the truest sense in offering some marketer form. Are you surprised that you are not getting more traction with these ideas?"
PAUL: "I think there is a breakthrough idea. I slipped on Mike's book with the president this afternoon and he and I came up with an idea that is a break. This would be to separate this into two bills. One would be the spending bill that has keeping ObamaCare spending and a lot of things, the moderate one, then, the other one would be more of a repeal bill. The repeal bill will be their budget reconciliation bill that only has a simple majority. The spending bill would be a bill that actually is something that many Democrats support. It is the strip program. You put the spending that many of the moderates want on one bill, then, on the other bell that is purely or more purely a repeal bill, you stick with repealing the taxes, the regulations, and is a Medicaid reform. It is a much more narrow repeal bill. Some of the things that Republicans want that required new spending or keeping ObamaCare, if they are on a separate bill, I think you can make both factions of the Republican Party ultimately happy with that."
MacCALLUM: "Are you saying that you could basically pass this repeal bill that would kind of denying Democrats and also some of the moderates in your own party from the opportunity to retain the parts of ObamaCare that you don't like?
PAUL: "No, they would get it in a separate bill, is what I am saying. There will be a repeal bill that I think everyone could vote for. It will repeal a certain amount of taxes and regulations, and read also use a Medicaid reform. Then, there will be a separate bill for the people who watch more spending programs. Some of the moderates in our caucus want more spending. We can put that on bill, a bill that every Democrat in Congress typically supports, and if you separate the bills, you could get to a passage where you repeal on one bill and you actually have some of the replacement spending on a separate bill that is one bill I Democrats would support."