NARRATOR: On July 27th, ─
NEWSCASTER: The Senate is scheduled to vote on the latest version of the bill to replace “Obama care.”
NEWSCASTER: They’re going to be there all night in what’s called a “voterama”─
NARRATOR: ─Washington was closely watching Senator John McCain. He was the key vote on President Trump’s first major legislative initiative, a repeal of “Obama care.”
SUSAN DAVIS, NPR: Every time we saw him, it was, like, “Do you know how you’re going to vote? Do you know how you’re going to vote?” And he was grouchier and grouchier as the day went on, as he sometimes gets. And he just said, “Stay tuned.” You know, it was sort of like─ he kind of was even saying, like, “Watch the vote. It’ll be a show.”
NEWSCASTER: He is expected to return to Capitol Hill today─
NARRATOR: Just over a week before, McCain had been diagnosed with a deadly form of brain cancer.
PETER BAKER, The New York Times: Everybody knew at that point it came down to, of all peop
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