Majority Leader Mitch McConnell likened his search for 50 senators willing to vote for the same repeal-and-replace legislation to solving a Rubik’s Cube, a task not helped by many GOP skeptics getting besieged back home this July 4 recess. Roll Call reporters Bridget Bowman and Niels Lesniewski see no reason to predict the health care impasse is about to be broken.

Show Notes:

• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Rubik’s Cube
• Protesters Urge Sen. Portman to Oppose Republican Health Care Bill 
• Health Care Ads Running This Recess

Let’s not forget that Sen. McConnell still refuses to hold one hearing on the health care bill that would throw 22 million off insurance.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 3, 2017

.@SenateMajLdr talked in E’town Friday on figuring out “how to twist the dials” to get health care bill passed https://t.co/yHdT9oFh5V pic.twitter.com/u8XCqvCPZO

— Courier-Journal.com (@courierjournal) July 1, 2017