Speaker Ryan `Frustrated' By Senate Health Vote

"Repealing and replacing Obamacare still ultimately requires the Senate to produce 51 votes for an actual plan", Ryan said. "I encourage the Senate to continue working toward a real solution that keeps our promise". Until the Senate can do that, we will never be able to develop a conference report that becomes law.

But he added, "We expect the Senate to act first on whatever the conference committee produces". Obamacare is collapsing and hurting American families. "We've got to get this done".

Ryan said the Senate had made it clear that they did not want their "skinny repeal" bill, the contents of which are not yet known but was expected to be voted upon on Thursday or Friday, to become law and that the aim of passing the legislation was to keep alive the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act.

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday he is willing to go to a conference committee with the Senate if it passes a pared-down version of Obamacare repeal. "The skinny bill as policy is a disaster", he said. House Speaker Jeff Hoover recently planned a meeting to call all 100 House members back to Frankfort to discuss taxes, pensions, and the budget. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), John McCain (Ariz.), and Bill Cassidy (La.) announced that they would each vote down the skinny bill unless the House promises that it won't pass the measure as is. After which, the unified congressional healthcare plan would have to pass through both chambers of Congress, and then President Donald Trump could sign the bill.

While Ryan didn't point the finger of blame at Senate Republicans, other GOP lawmakers did.

-Frank Clemente, Americans for Tax FairnessThough Ryan and company claim their vague plan to lower tax rates "as much as possible" will lift workers and small businesses while boosting economic growth, analysts have argued that in reality their agenda would deepen American's inequality crisis, which is the worst in the industrialized world. "I mean, after seven years and seven months, that's the best we can do?" So at Thursday's press conference, Republican Sens.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) professed, "All options are on the table".