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are you just making this up as you go along or is this from some rule book? The last time I looked it mattered not where the votes came from but only that they were there to pass the bill. That was the time for challenge and it has passed.
It has been the subject of prominent Op-Eds, some linked on this thread and others. The essential point is that the reason other major social legislation is considered "settled" is that it was passed with bipartisan support. Examples cited were Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Civil Rights Act. Contrary example -- not settled -- would be Roe v Wade, which being a judicial decision has no bipartisan support.