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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., confirmed that he will vote to move the Republican healthcare bill forward in the Senate, but stressed that he wont support the bill if conservatives arent more involved.

Nobody in Congress is more for repealing Obamacare and replacing all of it than me, Paul said on Fox News Fox & Friends Tuesday morning. Im not for [the bill]. Ill vote to get the bill out. But I want some assurance that well have a vote on a clean repeal. I think conservatives have been treated shoddy.

The Senate is scheduled for a preliminary vote on the GOP healthcare bill on Tuesday afternoon. The party has had a difficult time finding the 50 votes necessary, despite the GOP holding 52 seats in the upper chamber.

A number of conservatives associated with the Tea Party movement, including Paul and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, both of whom have been holdouts on the bill. Neither thinks it goes far enough to cut insurance costs or subsidies.

Paul said Tuesday that his faction haven't gotten zip from leadership, and that he has a lot of problems with this process, because conservatives are getting nothing.

"There's no promise of a clean repeal vote," Paul added. If they're not even going to talk with conservatives, if we're going to be excluded from the process, conservatives don't need to participate in this pork fest.

He said theres probably nobody in Congress more for repealing and replacing all of Obamacare than him.

I campaigned on it but what theyre putting forward isnt repeal and it becomes a huge insurance bailout.

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