Sen. Bob Corker was asked in an interview early Thursday whether the American people should expect that the intensifying drama surrounding the expected Thursday vote in the House on the latest version of legislation to supplant President Barack Obama’s landmark Affordable Care Act would lead swiftly to that same bill’s being put before the Senate for an up-or-down vote?

“ ‘No. Zero chance.’ ” — Sen. Bob Corker

The Tennessee Republican was a guest on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” just as House Republicans were readying a vote on what the American Health Care Act before its prospective effects had been analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office.