Senate faces shrinking timeline for Obamacare repeal

Senate Republicans are just starting to put together their plan to replace Obamacare, but face a daunting calendar if they are to stick to their plan of trying to hold a vote by the fall.

Senate committee and leadership staff will start putting together a draft bill over the week-long recess. The draft is essentially a starting point for continuing talks, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told reporters last week.

The task of drafting early legislative text follows weeks of talks among conservative and centrist Republicans.

"We have had these discussions, and it is time to draft a bill, and we will move forward when we get back," Johnson said.

No specifics on the draft have been revealed. But the idea is not so much to get one bill together, and senators instead want to keep working through ideas, a source familiar with the matter told the Washington Examiner.