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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the chamber will not vote on the Graham-Cassidy health-care bill.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that the chamber will not vote on the Graham-Cassidy health-care bill. Voters in Alabama to cast their ballots in the state’s Senate Republican primary. President Trump he will visit Puerto Rico next Tuesday to assess the damage left behind by Hurricane Maria. During an address at Georgetown University Law Center, Sessions that “freedom of thought and speech on the American campus are under attack,” as he criticized NFL players for kneeling in protest during the National Anthem. Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee he will not run for reelection in 2018.

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