\"My fellow conservatives, let me be clear. This ain't over. This ain't over by a long shot,\" Pence said. \"And President Trump and I are absolutely committed to keep our promise to the American people. We were not elected to save Obamacare -- we were elected to repeal and replace it.\" <\/p>\n
Pence was speaking at Young America's Foundation's annual National Conservative Student Conference a little over a week after the Republican-led Obamacare replacement proposal failed in dramatic fashion in the Senate. <\/p>\n
Hours before Pence's speech, President Trump had left the nation's capital for a 17-day working vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and the Senate had left for its August recess. <\/p>\n
Yet the vice president assured the conservative audience that the GOP's seven-year campaign to repeal the Affordable Care Act would continue. <\/p>\n
\"Last week it was clear that the Senate wasn't quite ready to keep that promise to the American people when they fell one vote short of moving forward on a bill to repeal and replace this disastrous policy,\" Pence said. <\/p>\n
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