Republican senator announces no vote on ObamaCare repeal: 'I did not come to Washington to hurt people'

Shelley Capito.
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Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) announced Tuesday that she will not back Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) plan to repeal ObamaCare without a replacement at the ready. "As I have said before, I did not come to Washington to hurt people," Capito said in her statement.

McConnell and President Trump announced the plan to repeal ObamaCare with a two-year period to write a replacement after the GOP's initial repeal-and-replace bill was killed Monday.

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