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18 Rs voting for higher taxes on the rich to reduce the hit to rural health care in their bill. Can’t remember the last time I saw Rs vote for a tax hike like that. Procedural vote would have passed but only 4 Ds supported it after Wyden said it was “a band aid on amputation.”

Asked how she’s leaning on the bill, Collins says, “As i've said from the beginning, i have a lot of serious reservations about the bill. … I'm going to wait ‘til we're done, know what direction we're going in, before announcing my position.”

Murkowski and Barrasso just left his office. When asked if there’ll be a vote today, Barrasso says, “Yes.” Murkowski says it’s in the “hands of the people that operate the copy machine”

When I asked about the holdouts -- Trump told me it would be "very wise for them to get on board." "I would say that they have to do it. Really, I would say that. If they don't, they'll pay the consequences. "

On a BBB deal, Lankford says, “I think we’re there, I just think it’s a matter of [getting] the final three votes, the amendment and the last procedural, and then the final.”

Mullin calls Vance the “closer” in getting Murkowski on board

Senate reporters // House reporters

Andy Ogles filing amendment to *delete* the Senate version to go back to original House version

"Near record level of atmospheric moisture" are never words my Utah ears want to hear

A wrinkle for members trying to get back tonight - lots of canceled DC-area flights, per the Flightaware Miserymap

One House R tells me: "I think many people in the House felt that we would get a more moderate version of the bill upon return. In fact, it's the opposite. It was more geared towards the Rick Scotts and Mike Lees."

If you saw the floor charts from Graham and Schumer you know this is urgent

The political theater of the last six months was the stuff of an Aaron Sorkin fantasy. It passed despite the upper chamber versus lower chamber infighting, despite the partisan zingers during overnight committee mark-ups, despite the feud between the world’s richest man and the

News/Senate floor scheduling: Rescissions package not expected on the Senate floor any earlier than next week (week of July 14), per source Multiple GOP senators have indicated they want changes, but Collins has been publicly deferring to leadership on holding a cmte markup