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Even after Senate Republicans scrapped the vote on  the Graham-Cassidy bill  this week  lead  sponsor Sen. Lindsey Graham  R-S.C.   said  he  remains optimistic about the legislation eventually passing because the missing votes were âactually more about process than substance.â
âWith more hearings  with regular order  weâre going to get 50 votes â  Graham  said during a press conference Tuesday. âWeâre going to fulfill our promise.â
Former Sen. Rick Santorum  who has for some reason or another partnered with  Graham  in this effort  told The Intercept on Tuesday afternoon that  he  is confident Sen. Lisa Murkowski  a key Republican holdout from Alaska  will come around next year if  the bill  goes through the normal committee process. âI know having talked to Lisa just a couple hours ago  she thinks itâs a good idea and she thinks the idea will stand up under public scrutiny  and it makes it an easier vote for everybody â  he  said.
 Graham  and  his  co-conspirators previously said  they  would demand that tax cuts and health care reform be lumped together if  they  failed to make headway on health care in September. But on Tuesday   Graham  changed course  saying  he  is now willing to let tax reform go ahead on its own because  he  had been unaware how complex tying the two together would be. Then  in the spring   Graham  said   he  will insist on a new budget resolution that allows for another crack at repeal using a 50-vote threshold â what is called budget reconciliation in the Senate.
In her statement released after the bill was officially yanked from the floor  Murkowski did indeed express openness to the framework Graham and co-sponsor Sen. Bill Cassidy had constructed. âI recognize the status quo with health care in this country is unacceptable. Giving control back to the states and flexibility are ideas I can get behind â she said. âBut substance matters and the ability to validate data matters.â
This is where it gets macabre. McCain  a key ânoâ vote  is living with a brain cancer diagnosis that is nearly always fatal. The same cancer took the life of his good friend  Sen. Ted Kennedy  and almost upended the push to pass the Affordable Care Act  after Scott Brown filled his seat. Were McCain to lose his battle with cancer  Arizonaâs GOP governor would appoint a Republican rubber stamp. Depending on the circumstances  some Republicans  such as McCainâs best friend Graham  may oppose rushing forward with repeal on pure human decency grounds.
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There are other factors at work besides warming. A global weather pattern called El Niño was absent this year  and that often means a stormier Atlantic Ocean. One reason is that high-altitude "shear winds" in the Atlantic that often nip the tops off budding hurricanes were absent  as well. 
Atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel at MIT  notes that there's also a rather mysterious cycle for Atlantic hurricanes. It seems to repeat about every decade. "We don't really understand it  [but] it's there "  he  says  and it also influences when and how often hurricanes arise. Sure enough  it was 12 years ago  in 2005  when the Atlantic saw such a similarly huge hurricane year.
 Emanuel  says scientists aren't clear whether hurricanes are becoming more common; reliable records for hurricanes go back only about 50 years in the Atlantic  so it's difficult to detect a long-term trend  and data for the Pacific are even scarcer. Theoretically   he  says  some aspects of warming could actually decrease the frequency of hurricanes by drying out parts of the atmosphere. But those that do arise are likely to be nastier. "Insofar as the storms are intense and produce a lot of rain "  he  says  "they're a window into our long-term future."
And it's a costly future   Emanuel  says. "We're just going to get more and more destruction "  he  predicts  "because we just encourage people to live and build in dangerous places" like low-lying coastlines — a fact independent of climate change.
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Tom Petty  was that rare classic rocker who didnât turn into a nostalgia act. As a singer  songwriter  guitarist and band leader   Petty  excelled through four decades of acclaimed albums and concerts that hewed to a narrow but brilliantly realized vision of rock ânâ roll.
 Petty   66  died Monday after being taken to UCLA Medical Center for cardiac arrest Sunday night.  His  death was confirmed Monday night by  his  familyâs spokeswoman  according to the Los Angeles Times. The singer-songwriter lived in Malibu  Calif.
Along the way he and the Heartbreakers rode out the fickle ebb and flow of pop trends to carry the torch for guitar-based rock  inevitably selling out stadiums around the world no matter what kind of music was atop the pop charts at the time. The band was on the road over the summer to celebrate its 40th anniversary  including a sold-out concert at Wrigley Field in June.  Petty  acknowledged  he  was something of a purist with a narrow definition of what rock should be â âItâs like jazz or folk or blues â take it too far and it isnât any of those things â  he  once told the Tribune. âWe see these banners at some of our shows: âGreatest rock ânâ roll band in the world.â And sometimes I think weâre the only one. There arenât many left.â
That âwonât back downâ mentality â which later spawned one of  his  greatest songs â was forged while growing up in Gainesville  Fla. Born in 1950   Petty  had a difficult relationship with  his  insurance-salesman father  who never understood  his  sonâs lack of interest in sports and passion for the arts.  The young Petty  was smitten with music after meeting Elvis Presley as a child through the auspices of a relative working on one of Presleyâs movie sets  and later seeing the Beatles perform on âThe Ed Sullivan Show.â He took guitar lessons from a future member of the Eagles  Don Felder  and began playing in a series of bands while working dead-end jobs â everything from washing dishes to digging graves.
âMusic was a safe place to be â  Petty  told the Tribune in 2002. âI think that in many ways I had a pretty tough childhood  and the music actually became a safe haven for me. That was where I escaped to. It really is the only true magic Iâve found in this world. Most magic is a trick of some kind. But music is actually a healing thing. It has this power to heal and inspire and to lift you right up.â
 Petty  then cut a demo with Campbell  Tench  bassist Ron Blair and drummer Stan Lynch that led to a record deal and the release of  Petty  and the Heartbreakersâ self-titled 1976 debut album. Later  one of Pettyâs heroes â the Byrdsâ McGuinn â recorded a cover of âAmerican Girl â which emulated the Byrdsâ chiming guitar-driven sound.

Tom Petty