By Todd Beamon | Saturday, 22 Jul 2017 06:40 PM
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to schedule a vote Tuesday to bring legislation to repeal Obamacare outright to the floor for debate in hopes of forcing Republicans to own their positions.
"Everybody has to be held personally accountable," Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas told Politico. "Everybody is a good enough politician that if they've got a reason to justify their vote, they'll be able to sell that."
With the move, McConnell, the six-term Kentucky senator, is hoping that any strong public backlash from the procedural vote's failure will force his conference back to the table, Politico reports.