By This article was reported by Kevin Sack, David M. Herszenhorn and Robert Pear and written by Sack.
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States took broadly divergent approaches on Tuesday to a federal judge’s ruling that invalidated the Obama administration’s health care law, while congressional Republicans used the decision to build momentum for a vote on repealing the act.
The Senate’s Democratic leaders answered the Republican challenge by saying they would stage a vote on the repeal measure as early as Wednesday, when they were certain it would be defeated. The House, where Republicans won a majority in November’s elections, approved the repeal last month.
“We want to get this out of their system very quickly,” the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, said at a news conference in Washington.