McConnell shifts highway/Ex-Im Bank logistics, includes Obamacare repeal vote

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Friday rolled out a new game plan for passing a highway bill and giving Democrats and the White House the vote they demand to restart the Export-Import Bank, which expired three weeks ago.

McConnell just took to the Senate floor and laid out the plan, explaining that before cloture is invoked on the bill Sunday, there will be votes on two amendments. First, a vote to add Export-Import Bank reauthorization to the highway bill “something nearly every Democrat wants,” and a vote to repeal Obamacare “something nearly every Republican wants.”