Yes, but securing their votes still doesn’t guarantee that the bill would pass. John McCain, Susan Collins, Ron Johnson and Steve Daines are also skeptical about the bill — and it only takes three no votes to fail.
Key quote: “We are all making our best educated guess of exactly what the rates should be. We’re trying to bring them down as fast, as far as possible. What I have asked for is a way to have a five year lookout. And if we get five years down the road and realize that the revenue is not coming on, the economic growth has not happened as expected, I don’t want our deficits to accelerate,” Lankford told Hewitt.