GOP Tries Last-Minute Fix to Prevent Health Bill Collapse

  • Moderates crafting amendment to gain necessary votes
  • Mulvaney says House vote may come as soon as Saturday

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Congressional Republicans are making last-ditch efforts to win over the remaining holdouts on their health-care bill, with moderates pitching a new amendment and the White House saying a vote could come later this week.

Representative Fred Upton of Michigan, who said Tuesday he couldn’t support Republicans’ Obamacare repeal bill in its current form, is working on an amendment “that nobody has a problem with,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday on conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show. “I feel very good about the progress we’re making.”