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Republican John Boehner is currently serving in the role as speaker of the HouseAnd earlier this week,he oversaw a House vote to repeal President Obama's controversial health care reform law.
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This law is widely considered to be President Obama's biggest U.S. accomplishment while he was president.
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And House Republicans are workingto come up with some replacement plans for the law.
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But as Samantha Hayes explains,the idea of repealing the existing law altogether might not go any further than it already has.
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It may turn out to be largely symbolic, but House Republicans
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along withthree Democrats,voted Wednesday to repeal the health care law championed by President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress.
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The vote, 245 to 189, wasmostly along party lines.
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It's the culmination of a campaign promise Republicans madeahead of the November midterm elections.
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The next step for the newly passed legislation is all but certain:the Senate likely won't even take it up.
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Earlier Wednesday, HouseMajority Leader Eric Cantor challenged his Democratic counterpart in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid,to consider the bill.
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