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So far, only a minority of Capitol Hill Republicans are demanding the next federal spending bill not include a dime for the Affordable Care Act.

But the issue carries added heft in right-leaning Georgia and already has created fissures that could help define GOP politics in the election year to come, forcing candidates to take sides and pushing tea party elements to use their clout.

At a rally at the state Capitol on Tuesday, tea party heavyweights warned wayward lawmakers that past resistance to the law known as Obamacare wasn’t enough.

Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, noted Isakson had previously voted dozens of times to repeal, dismantle or delay provisions of the health care law.

“If you vote once to defund and then turn around and vote to use our hard-earned taxpayer dollars on this law, you’re voting for and in favor of this law you claim to want to kill and repeal,” she said. “Which is it, Johnny? Are you in favor of or against the law? You cannot have it both ways.”

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