Help keep an eye out for updates to this today…. (ABC News)- The US Senate today is poised to vote on repealing President Obama’s controversial new health care law. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today on the Senate floor that the repeal vote will likely occur sometime late this afternoon. 
“We, as senators, have a choice,” Reid said. “We can move forward or we can look backward. We can make progress or stage a futile fight with the future. It’s clear this week that while the American people and Senate Democrats are looking ahead, Senate Republicans are looking for a way to distract the American people.”
Republicans have insisted that the Senate vote on repealing the law after the House passed a repeal last month. However, the House is controlled by Republicans, while Democrats still hold a 53 to 47 majority in the Senate, making today’s GOP push an effort destined to fail. But that is not stopping Republicans who want to go on the record as trying to scrap the bill that they have denounced as one of the worst in history.
“The case against this bill is more compelling every day,” the Senate’s top Republican Mitch McConnell said today on the Senate floor. “Everything we learn tells us it was a bad idea. That it should be repealed and replaced. The courts say so. The American people say so. Job creators say so. It’s time for those who passed this bill to show that they’ve noticed. Let’s take this opportunity.”
The repeal push is just one of three ways that Republicans are trying to scrap the health care law. Over half the states in the country have mounted lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the law. Earlier this week a judge in Florida ruled that the law was unconstitutional, a stance that Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, called “a dagger into the heart of Obamacare.” Two other judges, however, have ruled that the law is constitutional. The fight could rise to the Supreme Court.
The GOP’s third front against the health care law is being led by Graham and Sen. John Barrasso, R-WY, who have introduced legislation in Congress to allow states to opt out of the law.  (Full Article)