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July 12, 2017

McConnell Delays Senate Recess, Vows to Unveil New Healthcare Bill on Thursday
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Amid the widening White House scandal, Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc
Connell has delayed the Senate's August recess by two weeks. Mc Connell
is vowing to unveil a new version of the Republican healthcare plan on
Thursday and says he's pushing for a vote on the legislation next week.

Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell: "The news of the day is that, as I
think you already know, we'll be on healthcare next week. We'll be
laying out a revised version of the repeal-and-replace effort, the text
of that, on Thursday morning. We hope to have a CBO score by the
beginning of the week and a motion to proceed to that bill next week."

Multiple previous Republican efforts to repeal and replace the
Affordable Care Act have failed, after Republicans failed to muster
enough votes from their own party. The latest Senate Republican
healthcare plan would cause 22 million people to lose their health
insurance over the next decade.


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