The 80-year-old Senate veteran was advised by doctors to remain in Arizona next week, his office said in a statement Saturday. But two Republican senators have already declared their opposition to revised legislation that was unveiled on Thursday. Rand Paul (R-KY) have said they will not vote to start debate on the bill.
The news immediately threw into question the fate of Senate Republicans' Obamacare repeal vote.
As for McCain, there were plenty of well wishes for the Senator from Arizona.
McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, was resting comfortably at home in good condition after the Friday operation, according to doctors at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. Pathology reports on the clot were expected in the next several days.
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Mayo Clinic Hospital doctors said Saturday that McCain underwent a "minimally invasive" procedure to remove the almost 2-inch (5-centimeter) clot, and that the surgery went "very well". With all Democrats voting no, that would leave Republicans with just 49 votes, given McCain's absence. McCain said that he would file amendments that would address concerns of leaders from his state about how the bill would affect Medicaid. The surgery was described as a "minimally invasive craniotomy with an eyebrow incision".
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who schedules votes in the Senate, could postpone the procedural vote that had been cast as a showdown over the measure created to replace President Barack Obama's health care law, commonly called Obamacare.
"I have never known a man more tenacious and resilient than John McCain", Jeff Flake said.
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