Senate Moves Obamacare Repeal to Slow Lane After House Vote
- Recent changes to House measure complicate path in Senate
- Murkowski says she hopes Senate GOP starts with ‘clean slate’
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Passage of the House’s health-care bill gives the Obamacare repeal effort new life after months of wrangling, but key Republican senators are already pushing it aside to write their own bill with no clear timetable to act.
The narrowly passed House measure can’t get anywhere near the 51 votes needed as is, even though Republican senators insist they’re united on delivering on their seven-year vow to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Instead, they want to write their own bill.