SENATE DELAYS AUG. RECESS TO WORK ON HEALTH CARE

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday the Senate will delay the start of its summer recess to finish action on repealing Obamacare and other priority items.

“In order to provide more time to complete action on important legislative items and process nominees that have been stalled by a lack of cooperation from our friends across the aisle, the Senate will delay the start of the August recess until the third week of August,” McConnell said in a statement.

The Senate, which usually leaves for a month-long summer recess in August, had been scheduled to go on break at the end of July but has been under pressure to cancel recess to do more work.