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U.S. Capitol Police maintain order as hundreds of people, many with disabilities, arrive for a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the last-ditch GOP push to overhaul the nation's health care system, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: GOP concedes defeat on health care overhaul

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Roy Moore has drawn support from many Republicans, including former presidential adviser Steve Bannon, while President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell back his opponent, Sen. Luther Strange. (Associated Press)

Luther Strange victory in Alabama may save Mitch McConnell’s GOP leadership

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally for U.S. Senate candidate Luther Strange, Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, in Huntsville, Ala. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump trying to turn around GOP holdouts on health bill

By CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks at a rally, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala. Palin is in Montgomery to support Judge Roy Moore for the U.S. Senate candidacy. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Trump promises Alabama Sen. Strange will ‘drain the swamp’

By CATHERINE LUCEY and KIM CHANDLER - Associated Press

Justice Neil Gorsuch speaks to an audience as a guest of Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., at the University of Louisville, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Supreme Court’s Gorsuch touts conservative role for judges

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at a meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

A test for Trump’s political muscle in Alabama Senate runoff

By CATHERINE LUCEY and KIM CHANDLER - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will tell any Republican holdouts that they will have to explain to the party's conservative base why they are standing in the way of fulfilling a campaign promise. (Associated Press/File)

Mitch McConnell: Senate will take up Obamacare repeal bill

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., joined by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters as he pushes a last-ditch effort to uproot former President Barack Obama's health care law, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: Trump says GOP health care law has ‘good chance’

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FILE - In this July 13, 2017, file photo, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., left, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, talk while walking to a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Republicans are planning a final, uphill push to erase President Barack Obama's health care law. But Democrats and their allies are going all-out to stop the drive. The initial Republican effort crashed in July in the GOP-run Senate. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said after that defeat that he'd not revisit the issue without the votes to succeed. Graham and Cassidy are leading the new GOP charge and they'd transform much of Obama's law into block grants and let states decide how to spend the money. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

The Latest: Bipartisan effort to improve ‘Obamacare’ over

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Senate Budget Committee members Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., left, and Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., center, walk with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, right, as they leave a closed-door meeting with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin after working on a tax code overhaul, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. The as-yet-undrafted bill to overhaul the tax code is the top priority for Trump and Republicans after the collapse of their effort to dismantle Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP lawmakers: Move Appalachian agency out of Washington

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Rep. Nancy Pelosi. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Donald Trump deal with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer a difficult dance

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

Illustration on Paul Ryan's predicament by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Paul Ryan suffers from being timid

By Richard W. Rahn

In this Sept. 6, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump pauses during a meeting with Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, in Washington. From left, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Vice President Mike Pence, Trump, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. The tortured relationship between Trump and Ryan has gone cool again, with the Republican president making clear he has no qualms about bucking the GOP leader to cut deals with his Democratic foes. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

For Trump and Ryan, a tortured relationship grows more so

By ERICA WERNER and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

In this Aug. 15, 2017, file photo, Sen. Luther Strange speaks to media after forcing a runoff against former Chief Justice Roy Moore in Homewood, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)

Luther Strange joins Donald Trump’s calls for scrapping legislative filibuster

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Aug. 15, 2017, file photo, Sen. Luther Strange speaks to media after forcing a runoff against former Chief Justice Roy Moore in Homewood, Ala. Strange on Tuesday, Aug. 29, launched his first salvo against Moore in the contentious Senate race, calling Moore a hypocrite “who has spent 40 years putting himself and his ambition ahead of Alabamians.” (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)

Alabama Senate candidates stump for votes over long weekend

By KIM CHANDLER - Associated Press

Facing challenges, McConnell says ‘that’s the way it is’

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

Mitch McConnell called ‘foie gras eating insider swamp monster’ on ‘Fox and Friends’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 6, 2017 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. listens as President Donald Trump, speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. The rift between President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is poised to have lasting consequences on the GOP legislative agenda and Republicans' re-election prospects. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

The Latest: Trump continues Twitter attack on McConnell

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President Donald Trump waves as he walks from Marine One across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, as he returns from Reno, Nev. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump attacks Republican leaders over debt ceiling ‘mess’

By KEN THOMAS and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

Donald Trump must save the Republicans — and Congress — from themselves

By Tammy Bruce