Obamacare Repeal: How Texas Representatives Voted

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House of Representatives narrowly passed healthcare legislation to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act.

The final vote tally stood at 217-213, with Texas representatives representatives voting 24-12, mostly along partly lines to repeal the ACA, known as Obamacare.

However, the lone exception was San Antonio Republican Will Hurd, who voted with Democrats against the Republican healthcare measure.

Hurd, who made headlines earlier this year when he and U.S. rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) livestreamed their cross-country roadtrip from Texas to Washington, DC, joined 19 other Republicans voting against repealing Obamacare in favor of the new American Health Care Act.

“I will not support the AHCA in its current form and hope that we can continue making improvements that fix our broken healthcare system,” Hurd said in a prepared statement.

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Hurd is one of several Republicans who came from districts where former Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton won support in the November 2016 election.

Other Republicans from heavily Democratic districts in Texas included, Harris County Republicans Pete Sessions and John Culberson.

Meanwhile, other lawmakers cheered the repeal, including U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, and who also helped write the new legislation.

“Not only does this legislation rescue millions of Americans from Obamacare’s crushing taxes and collapsing health care market, it lays the foundation for a health care system based on what workers and families want and need,” Brady said in a statement. “Our proven, conservative solutions will move us away from the government-centered Obamacare model and toward a patient, family, and state-driven approach that will lower costs, expand choices, and increase access to care.”

The bill faced numerous hurdles in the House, particularly among some Republican opponents in the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.

The opposition prompted U.S. Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) to resign from the caucus in March.

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Poe, who voted for repealing Obamacare who has stumped for the repeal of Obamacare since its passage, chided the House Freedom Caucus for its failure to back the bill and deliver on the agenda that conservative leaders had promised.

How'd they vote:

• Louie Gohmert — (R-TX) Yes
• Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) — No
• Ted Poe (R-TX) — Yes
• Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) — No
• John Culberson (R-TX) — Yes
• Al Green (D-TX) — No
• Will Hurd (R-TX) — No
• Gene Greene (D-TX) — No
• Michael McCaul (R-TX) — Yes
• Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) — No
• Kay Granger (R-TX) — Yes
• Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) — No
• Kevin Brady — (R-TX) Yes
• Joaquin Castro (D-TX) —No
• John Carter — (R-TX) Yes
• Henry Cuellar (D-TX) — No
• Lamar Smith (R-TX) — Yes
• Marc Veasey (D-TX) — No
• John Ratcliffe (R-TX — Yes
• Filemon Vela (D-TX) — No
• Jeb Hensarling ( R-TX) — Yes
• Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) — No
• Sam Johnson (R-TX) — Yes
• Michael Conaway (R-TX) — Yes
• Blake Farenthold (R-TX) — Yes
• Brian Babin (R-TX) — Yes
• Roger Williams (R-TX) — Yes
• Jodey Arrington (R-TX) — Yes
• Marc Thornberry (R-TX) — Yes
• Joe Barton (R-TX) — Yes
• Pete Olsen (R-TX) — Yes
• Bill Flores (R-TX) — Yes
• Pete Sessions (R-TX)— Yes
• Mike Burgess (R-TX) — Yes
• Ken Marchant (R-TX) — Yes
• Sam Johnson (R-TX) — Yes

See how all representatives voted on the AHCA and the ACA.

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