House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., one of the stewards of the Republican health care legislation, carries a binder labeled 'Essential Health Benefits.'

Republicans Have Control, Can They Govern?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 27, 2017

Ed O'Keefe, congressional reporter at The Washington Post, reports on the latest political news after the fall out of the Republicans' replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act. 

"After so many years of threatening to do something, now that Republicans have control, are they capable of governing?" said O'Keefe. "In the first big test, they failed."

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