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Revised health care plan to be unveiled Thursday and senators will stick around Washington to (hopefully) tackle the issue. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that a revised version of major health care legislation would be made public on 7/13 and a vote is expected sometime next week. McConnell didn’t disclose any of the changes that some Republican senators have opposed in the bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He also pushed back the Senate’s planned August recess by two weeks to allow senators more time to work on the measure
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