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House and Senate Preview: Efforts Swirl on Border Wall, Obamacare and Trump’s Cabinet

By Rema Rahman
Posted January 30, 2017 at 6:02pm

By Rema Rahman and Bridget Bowman and Thomas McKinless and Michael Cades

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The House and Senate are back in session Monday following last week’s GOP retreat in Philadelphia. Roll Call’s Rema Rahman and Bridget Bowman lay out what’s ahead in the coming days, including procedural votes on some of President Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments and efforts toward repealing the Affordable Care Act.

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