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FILE - In this July 27, 2017, file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCain says he won't vote for the Republican bill repealing the Obama health care law. His statement likely deals a fatal blow to the last-gasp GOP measure in a Senate showdown expected next week. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, file)

John McCain opposes last-ditch Obamacare repeal

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Analysts: Pennsylvania would lose billions under health bill

By MARC LEVY - Associated Press

In this Sept. 19, 2017, photo, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks with a reporter as she arrives for a vote at the Capitol in Washington. Provisions shoehorned into the Republican health care bill dangle extra money for Alaska and Wisconsin, home states of one GOP senator whose vote party leaders desperately need and another who co-sponsored the legislation, according to analysts who've studied the legislation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP health bill offers provisions aimed at helping 2 states

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

This combination of 2017 file photos shows U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, left, and Sen. Luther Strange. On Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, their campaigns confirmed the candidates in the race for Attorney General Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat will hold a debate on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, Butch Dill, File)

Donald Trump backs Luther Strange in Alabama GOP Senate primary

By Seth McLaughlin - 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)

Republicans see political necessity in health care effort

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Otter, state officials wary on health care overhaul

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI - Associated Press

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., center, listens as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, speaks, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Study: Most states would take a hit from GOP health bill

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

The Latest: Donnelly opposes GOP health care repeal bill

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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)

Worries of backlash help revive GOP health care drive

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to the media, accompanied by Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Sen. Graham presses for support for GOP health bill

By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

Cassidy health bill faces opposition from Louisiana governor

By MELINDA DESLATTE - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence delivered a pep talk to Senate Republicans and plotted strategy with Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of the chief architects of the proposal to repeal Obamacare and send money to states in the form of block grants. (Associated Press)

White House, Senate GOP shift focus back onto Obamacare repeal

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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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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)

Senate GOP musters final push to erase Obama health care law

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, chairs a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing on Steve King, a prominent GOP insider from Wisconsin, nominated to be ambassador to the Czech Republic, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Aug. 1, 2017. (Associated Press)

Ron Johnson schedules hearing on health care block grants

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate GOP confronts no-tax package in 80-day budget fight

By MARC LEVY - Associated Press

Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey speaks to the media about school choice after touring the Arizona School for the Arts Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Phoenix. A lawsuit has been filed, by a coalition lead by the Goldwater Institute, over an attempt to delay the expansion of Arizona's school choice program, saying the attempted delay has put many families' educational futures in limbo, but earlier this month, an anti-school choice group filed petition signatures to halt the program's expansion. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Doug Ducey backs Obamacare repeal bill; Support could influence McCain vote

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Fans of President Trump gather at "The Mother of All Rallies" on the National Mall on Saturday. Their energy may shift the GOP's focus. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: ‘True Trump voters’ and Berniecrats lead the nation toward a third party

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 13, 2017, photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., answers questions during an interview with The Associated Press in Washington. Conservatives nearly tanked the global economy and shut down the government when Democrat Barack Obama was president. They demanded financial discipline and deep spending cuts in the face of the country's fast-growing debt. Now, with a chance to make politically popular tax cuts, few Republicans worry about adding billions more in red ink. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Tax cuts quiet once-deafening GOP call for fiscal discipline

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

From left, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., hold a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, to unveil legislation to reform health care. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Bill Cassidy: Obamacare repeal is within sight, needs one or two votes

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times