House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) thanked the three GOP senators who broke with their party to kill the Senate's bill to repeal ObamaCare during a vote early Friday morning.

In a press conference Friday, Pelosi thanked Sens. John McCain John Sidney McCainBiden's six best bets in 2016 Trump states Replacing Justice Ginsburg could depend on Arizona's next senator The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Washington on edge amid SCOTUS vacancy MORE (R-Ariz.), Lisa Murkowski Lisa Ann MurkowskiGraham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Gardner signals support for taking up Supreme Court nominee this year Tumultuous court battle upends fight for Senate MORE (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins Susan Margaret CollinsGraham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Gardner signals support for taking up Supreme Court nominee this year Tumultuous court battle upends fight for Senate MORE (R-Maine) for breaking with their party and standing up to the Trump administration.

"I want to thank Senator McCain for establishing a higher level of participation as to how we should proceed," Pelosi said Friday, referencing McCain's return from Arizona, where he was diagnosed with brain cancer last week, to vote against the bill.

"To Senators Murkowski, Collins and McCain, thank you for hearing the voices of the families," Pelosi added.

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She was joined at the podium by Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who echoed Pelosi's praise of McCain and added that he hoped it would be a "turning point" for how business is handled in Congress's upper chamber.

"I hope what John McCain did will be regarded in history as a turning point, where the Senate turned back from its partisanship and started working together," Schumer told reporters Friday.

McCain, Murkowski and Collins were the only GOP senators to vote against the "skinny" repeal of ObamaCare, which failed to pass in a late-night vote early Friday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGraham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Trump puts Supreme Court fight at center of Ohio rally The Memo: Dems face balancing act on SCOTUS fight MORE (R-Ky.) targeted Democrats in his statement after the vote, saying that now was the time for them to put forth some proposals to fix the country's struggling healthcare system.

"What we tried to accomplish for the American people was the right thing for the country," McConnell said Friday. "I think the American people are going to regret that we couldn't find another way forward."

“Now I think it’s appropriate to ask, what are their ideas?” McConnell said of the Democrats. “It’ll be interesting to see what they suggest as the way forward.”