GOP Health care bill on the brink (again)

GOP Health care bill on the brink (again)

By MJ Lee and Ted Barrett, CNN 

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Republicans have at least 10 "no" votes for the current version of their health care planSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can only lose two GOP senatorsSen. Ted Cruz has an amendment that conservatives like and moderates don't

(CNN)The Senate returns for a critical three-week period when Republicans will try to salvage their health care bill. But it's clearly in deep trouble and they might not be able to save it.

Things are looking especially tough after the bill hung out there over the recess (which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell badly wanted to avoid) and it got battered by voters and senators.

Watch Tuesday's Senate lunch -- that's when we might get the first real indications of the week on which direction leadership is moving, and it'll be an opportunity for leaders to take the temperature of the conference on how they're feeling after the week-long recess.