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ABC News reports:
Around 11:30 today, the Senate is expected to vote on a straight repeal-only option based on 2015 piece of legislation that passed both chambers of Congress but was vetoed by then-President Barack Obama.
Although that language cleared the House and Senate back then, some Senate Republicans acknowledge now that the vote was symbolic. It was used by some at the time to send a message to Obama and to their constituents back home even though they knew it would be vetoed. More recently, several Republicans have said they won’t back a straight repeal-only option like that one and, as of now, it will likely fail.
Senate Republicans’ first attempt at passing their own replacement legislation failed last night, with nine Republicans joining all of the chamber’s Democrats to defeat it 43 to 57. That outcome was not a surprise, given that the bill had previously been pulled from the Senate floor due to lack of support.
Republicans from several factions of the party had previously stated their objections to it for a variety of reasons, including its proposed cuts to Medicaid, failure to cut premiums sufficiently and failure to repeal Obamacare entirely.