Business Insider reports:
Kansas senator Jerry Moran has been hounded by reporters since announcing Monday night that he wouldn’t vote for the Republican healthcare bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act. When confronted by reporters on Tuesday on Capitol Hill, Moran opted to jump across the tracks of the Senate subway to get away from them.
Moran, along with fellow Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, together doomed the BCRA when they announced Monday they would vote against a motion to proceed on the Senate Republican leadership’s repeal-and-replace bill.
While Moran criticized the secretive process used to draft the bill and the fact it could roll back protections for people with preexisting conditions, Lee thought the BCRA didn’t go far enough to rollback entitlements.
From those wondering: “The subway system of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. consists of three underground electric people mover systems that connect the United States Capitol to the House and Senate office buildings.”
Sen. Moran jumped subway tracks to try to avoid reporters asking about the healthcare bill https://t.co/DRmlEp85Tf pic.twitter.com/fFvLdmClRu
— BI Politics (@bi_politics) July 18, 2017
.@JerryMoran jumps the tracks of the Senate subway on Capitol Hill to get around a large gathering of reporters as he arrives @uscapitol pic.twitter.com/sMyivmJaLM
— Andrew Harnik (@andyharnik) July 18, 2017