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===Second term=== In his second term, McKenna continued to be active in the [[National Association of Attorneys General]], serving as co-chair on various committees and receiving the NAAG's Distinguished Service Award before becoming Vice-President of the organization in 2009. In 2010, he was elected President of NAAG, and assumed the office on June 22, 2011. He launched his Presidential Initiative, a program called "Pillars of Hope" aimed at reducing [[human trafficking]] in the US, in Chicago on the following day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naag.org/rob-mckenna.php |title=NAAG | Rob McKenna |accessdate=2011-06-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120142317/http://www.naag.org/rob-mckenna.php |archivedate=January 20, 2011 |df=mdy}}</ref> On March 22, 2010 McKenna announced that he was joining other Republican elected officials in a [[Florida et al v. United States Department of Health and Human Services|multi-state challenge to the constitutionality]] of a [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|health care overhaul bill]] passed by US Congress and signed by President Obama.<ref name="BusinessWeek1">{{cite web|title=Washington state AG will sue over health care bill|work=Bloomberg BusinessWeek|accessdate=March 22, 2010|url=http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EJU8B80.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023180004/http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EJU8B80.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 23, 2012}}</ref> The ongoing legal battle grew into a 26 state coalition of plaintiffs, including McKenna, who maintained his original motivation to see the provision for mandatory purchase of private individual health-insurance plans by 2014 struck down for being unconstitutional.<ref name=mckennapays>{{cite web|last=Brunner |first=Jim |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017833876_healthcare25m.html |title=If 'Obamacare' falls, McKenna could pay political price | The Seattle Times |website=Seattletimes.nwsource.com |date= |accessdate=2016-01-26}}</ref> McKenna differed from his co-plaintiffs by supporting the law's several provisions pertaining to patient protection; the other opponents wanted the entire law scrapped.
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