text: I am neither ignorant nor misleading.  The facts are that Republicans offered over 700 amendments to the ACA in committee.  Of those, only 159 were adopted, and of those, only two of them were substantive enough to require a vote.  Yes, Congress could have worked toward some kind of compromise on the ACA, but it was the Democrats who repeatedly said no.  Just like throughout the last Congress, when Harry Reid was so determined to shut the door on any good idea, Republican or Democrat, that he consistently refused to allow Senators to have votes on their amendments on the floor.  Which is one reason why Mark Begich wasn't able to get anything done.
  Now, however, under Republican leadership in the Senate, multiple complicated, important bills have been crafted on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.  Just a few, in case you missed them: the Every Student Succeeds Act; the Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act; FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act; FAST Act; etc.