By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--March 10, 2017
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The measure now goes to the House Budget Committee, with plans for a vote in the full House within several weeks. The House Ways and Means Committee passed its piece of the legislation early Thursday morning. While the plan is on track to make it to the floor by the end of the month, it faces an uphill battle in the Senate. Several Republicans have come out against the bill, including some senators from expansion states who oppose the Medicaid rollback. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said the bill is "worse" than ObamaCare. "Insurance rates could go up and Americans could have even less control," he told ABC News Thursday. Asked about the criticism from Cotton that the House is moving too fast, Scalise said at a press conference after the markup that Americans can't wait. "American families have waited long enough for relief from ObamaCare," he said. "We have run for years on the promise that if we had this opportunity, we would actually move forward to repeal and replace ObamaCare."
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