WASHINGTON — Connecticut Democrats on Capitol Hill expressed hope that Republicans would finally come to the negotiating table after the demise of the latest effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, but they weren’t holding their breath. “I don’t know that Republicans can quit this,’’ Sen. Chris Murphy said with a laugh shortly before Republicans came out of their weekly policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol and confirmed the obvious: They didn’t have the votes to pass the Cassidy-Graham measure so the vote scheduled for this week was canceled. “We’re still a little bit in the ‘morning after’ phase,’’ said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “Some of it will depend on the president and how hospitable he is to a bipartisan effort.
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