If Republicans Can’t Get This Lawmaker, Obamacare Repeal May Be Dead
- An architect of previous years’ repeal bills not ready to back
- Vote count could be close as backers claim ‘great progress’
Representative Fred Upton, a Republican from Michigan, listens during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in Washington on Oct. 30, 2013.
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Representative Fred Upton helped guide dozens of Obamacare repeal measures through the House in recent years, but he has deep reservations about the GOP’s current bill.
“I’m not comfortable with it and I told the leadership that,” he said Friday, in a vivid illustration of the continuing obstacles to the GOP effort to resurrect its stalled repeal plan.