Red-state Democrats vow to defend Obamacare

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Senate Democrats facing re-election next year in states that supported Mitt Romney’s presidential bid promised to defend Obamacare during the upcoming budget fight by voting against any measure that defunds the health care law.

“We’re not going through another [vote to repeal Obamacare], 43rd or 44th — no,” Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, told the Huffington Post. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., made the same pledge, noting that Obamacare is “the law of the land,” though he believes it needs improving.

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