WASHINGTON — The Minnesota U.S. House delegation split on party lines on another vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday, nearly two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled the law constitutional.

The final tally was 244-185. Minnesota’s four Republicans voted for the bill; its four Democrats voted against it. The delegation’s votes were identical to the ones they took the last time the House tried repealing the whole law, back in January 2011.

Republicans held a marathon debate on the bill on Tuesday. Republican Rep. John Kline called the law “flawed and failed” and pitched the repeal effort as a jobs plan, warning that the ACA was scaring employers away from hiring workers.

“Hundreds of additional boards and bureaucracies, thousands of pages of complex regulations, billions of dollars in tax hikes, and trillions of dollars in new government spending,” Kline said. “These are the burdens the health care law has piled on the backs of working families and job creators.”

Liberal members of the delegation, meanwhile, praised the law and slammed the efforts to repeal it. Rep. Betty McCollum called the effort a “gimmick that panders to the Tea Party.” Rep. Keith Ellison called it “political theater at its worst,” and introduced a (easily defeated) motion to adjourn, saying in a statement, “If Speaker Boehner is going to waste time on partisan legislation that isn’t going anywhere, members of Congress should be in their districts listening to their constituents.”

The bill was, as has been documented, the House’s 33rd attempt to repeal all or some part of the Affordable Care Act. Only one, a deficit reduction package that contained some ACA funding cuts, was been signed into law; none of the rest have been successful, and with a Democratically-controlled Senate and White House, this one won’t be, either.

But the vote allows Republicans to uphold a promise to voters, to repeal the so-called “Obamacare” law that so many of the party’s members ran against in the 2010 elections.

It was also a decidedly political vote: Republican U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s re-election campaign sent supporters an email highlighting the vote and asking for donations of “$20.12 today, to make a statement that 2012 will be the year we take our country back.”

Devin Henry can be reached at dhenry@minnpost.com. Follow him on Twitter: @dhenry