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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell planned to release the measure Thursday morning.
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Earlier Wednesday, conservative Sen. Rand Paul, R Ky., seemed skeptical that McConnell’s package would go far enough in dismantling Obama’s law, a concern shared by other congressional conservatives.
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