By AOL Staff
AOL.com
July 28, 2017
The Senate burst into audible gasps when Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona delivered the decisive, finishing blow to the GOP’s “skinny repeal” health care bill early Friday morning when he became the 51st senator to vote against it.
Republican senators were seeking to pass the bill, which would have stripped a few essential elements of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, to establish a conference with the House and create a more robust bill.