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2017-07-08 — thehill.com
"[It's] almost impossible to try to solve when you're trying to do it with 51 votes in the United States Senate, in which there is not significant consensus on what the end result ought to be," he said.''
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With a slim 52-seat majority, McConnell can only afford to lose two GOP senators and still let Vice President Pence break a tie. With Hoeven's defection there are roughly 10 GOP senators publicly opposed to the bill.
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