GOP hopes for Senate health care bill flickering out
The Republican drive to tear down President Barack Obama's health care law was flickering out Monday as a decisive handful of GOP senators remained opposed to the last-gasp bill. Changes aimed at galvanizing GOP support produced no apparent additional votes as time was running out for the White House and party leaders. "We don't have the support for it," Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told reporters as Republican assessments of their chances grew increasingly gloomy. Conservative Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he'd not abandoned his previously announced opposition to the measure, despite the revisions and energetic lobbying by President Donald Trump and White House officials. He complained that the bill spent too much and said Republicans were motivated by fear of punishment by conservative voter...