Senate Republicans To Try To Repeal Obamacare
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The Senate will now waste its time trying to do what the House tried and failed to do at least 52 times.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is convening the meeting to walk through the special budgetary process known as reconciliation, which will allow Republicans to pass the package with a simple-majority vote.
Controversial legislation usually must overcome a 60-vote threshold.But McConnell may not even have 51 votes because several GOP moderates don’t like an added provision defunding Planned Parenthood — and several conservatives think the core bill doesn’t go far enough to repeal ObamaCare.
“We’re regrouping with the expectation that we’re moving this week on it,” said a Senate GOP aide, who described the meeting as, “a final get-together to find out where we are so we can move with ObamaCare repeal.”
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