(Bloomberg) -- Several key Republicanholdouts on health-care legislation said they will vote to begindebate Tuesday afternoon, even though senators don’t know exactlywhere the legislation will end up.
It’s unclear whether they have the 50 votes needed to beginconsidering a version of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’sreplacement bill or a stripped-down bill that would repeal much ofObamacare with a two-year delay.
“I will vote to move forward and give us a chance to address theunworkable aspects of the law that have left many Nevadans --particularly those living in rural areas -- with dwindling or nochoices,” Republican Senator Dean Heller of Nevada said in astatement. “If the final product isn’t improved for the state ofNevada, then I will not vote for it; if it is improved, I willsupport it.”
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