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Records obtained Wednesday by The Associated
Press show top aides to President Barack Obama met early and often
with lobbyists, Democratic political strategists and other
interests with a stake in a national health care overhaul.
The White House
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| Latest Minnesota news, sports, business and entertainment:... Nov 25 2009 1:46AM
The jury in the fraud trial of Minnesota
businessman Tom Petters has gone home for the Thanksgiving holiday
without reaching a verdict.
Jurors spent about seven and a half hours deliberating Tuesday,
following two hours of discussions after clos
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| ND officials urge flu vaccination Nov 24 2009 7:08PM
North Dakota health officials are telling
people not to let down their guard against swine flu, saying people
with an increased risk should get vaccinated.
State epidemiologist Kirby Kruger said the number of flu cases
in the state seems to have
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Health Care and Small Businesses Nov 24 2009 7:01PM
Health care forums across North Dakota are bringing small business owners together.
Small business owners and the Campaign for Responsible Health Reform are discussing the effects of the proposed legislation.
Many business owners feel the cur
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Nov 24 2009 3:17PM
President Barack Obama says he's "very
confident" that the American people will support the path he
chooses in Afghanistan, once they hear his explanation for it.
That opportunity is expected to come next week in a national
address.
Obama
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Nov 24 2009 3:16AM
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says
President Barack Obama will announce his new Afghanistan strategy
"within days."
The president met for two hours Monday with top advisers for the
last major discussion before the announcement.
Gi
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| Update on the latest in religion news: Nov 24 2009 2:48AM
Samaritans Purse has collected millions
of shoebox gifts for children around the world through this year's
Operation Christmas Child Ministry.
Samaritans Purse president, the Reverend Franklin Graham, is now
urging Christians who turned in those
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| Poll: Americans conflicted over health overhaul Nov 24 2009 12:14AM
A new poll suggests much of the nation is
fixated on the health care debate even though they don't expect the
outcome will affect their lives directly.
A survey by the nonpartisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
counts 60 percent of Americans who
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| Afghan decision soon...Poll: Strong interest in health care... Nov 24 2009 12:07AM
An announcement on what the U.S. will do in
Afghanistan could come "within days." So says the White House.
President Barack Obama held a two-hour meeting Monday night with
his war council. It was the 10th meeting Obama has held as he
decides whethe
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| Strategy session...Insanity plea?...Crib recall...NFL concussions... Nov 23 2009 8:53PM
The White House says President Barack Obama
decision on the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan could come in the next
few days. Obama has been meeting tonight in a rare evening war
council session. It's the tenth Obama has held to determine whether
to comm
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Conrad Speaks About Healthcare Legislation Nov 23 2009 7:22PM
The US Senate voted Saturday night to move its version of health care reform forward to debate.
North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad says there was no credible reason not to vote in favor of debating legislation.
Conrad has been traveling around North Da
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| Obama says long term looks good...Stocks gain...Somali charges... Nov 23 2009 4:06PM
He says it's been a sobering year for millions
who are newly unemployed, but President Barack Obama says the
nation's economy is in good shape for the long term. He's pointing
to what he says are the economy's "core strengths," such as its
universiti
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| Republicans turn up the heat on Democratic moderates... Nov 23 2009 4:06PM
In the aftermath of Saturday's vote that sent
a Democratic health care reform plan to the Senate floor for
debate, Republicans are going after some moderate Democrats who
voted with the rest of their party.
For example, a state GOP leader in Neb
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Nov 23 2009 11:26AM
President Barack Obama is calling his war
council together as he moves toward a decision on whether to add
more U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
The president has said he would announce his plans by year's
end. He first called the high-powered nation
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| Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment:... Nov 23 2009 11:12AM
Fire has destroyed a church in the eastern
South Dakota town of Artesian.
The Sanborn County Sheriff's Office says no one was hurt.
The cause of the blaze that started about 4 a.m. Monday was not
immediately known.
Information fr
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| Home sales surge...Afghanistan meeting...Spacewalk continues... Nov 23 2009 10:02AM
First-time home buyers have been rushing to
take advantage of a tax credit before it expires. And that sent
home sales to the highest level in 2 1/2 years last month. The
National Association of Realtors says resales rose more than 10
percent to a se
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| H1N1 vaccine tops 108K doses Nov 23 2009 5:43AM
The state Health Department said it has
distributed more than 108,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine since it became
available in early October.
The vaccine initially was given to health care workers and those
considered most at risk.
Another two d
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| Violence in Afghanistan...Bodies found...Space station odd jobs... Nov 23 2009 4:54AM
NATO is reporting four U.S. service members have
been killed in violence across Afghanistan in the past 24 hours.
Three were killed in bombings while the fourth died in a firefight.
The deaths bring the number of Americans killed in Afghanistan in
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| Gaps for consumers in Democrat health care bills Nov 23 2009 3:37AM
Resolving their own differences will be a tall
order for congressional Democrats trying to deliver on President
Barack Obama's signature issue, the health care overhaul.
And there will be gaps for consumers, since the Democratic
measures would l
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| Update on the latest in religion news: Nov 23 2009 2:41AM
A Muslim scholar says Muslims must address
what he says is a mistaken perception that the Fort Hood massacre
can be blamed on Islam.
An Army psychiatrist who is a Muslim is charged with killing 13
in an attack earlier this month at Fort Hood.
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| Insignificant radiation...Health care debate...Mine explosion... Nov 23 2009 1:45AM
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
says the small amount of radiation detected at the Three Mile
Island nuclear power plant isn't significant. Specialist John White
says there's no indication that radiation at the Pennsylvania plant
exceeded or e
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| Democratic split...Mine explosion...Rescue resumes Nov 23 2009 12:56AM
They united to advance the health care bill to
full debate Saturday but cracks are showing among Senate Democrats
as moderates and liberals dig in their heels. Moderates concerned
about the public health insurance option have threatened to scuttle
th
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| Rifts in Democratic party show over health care legislation... Nov 23 2009 12:42AM
A day after Democrats united in the Senate to
advance health care legislation, deep rifts are showing in the
party.
Moderates hit the Sunday talk shows and threatened to scuttle
the bill if their demands aren't met. Sen. Ben Nelson of [[kxtopic:
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| Health care predebating...Gas prices down...Redhead attack... Nov 23 2009 12:07AM
The nearly $1 trillion Senate health care
measure could be facing a fiery debate on the floor. Moderate
Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson tells ABC he doesn't want the bill to
become a "big-government, Washington-run operation" that would
undermine private in
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Nov 22 2009 11:13PM
The average price of regular gasoline
in the U.S. has dropped 3.64 cents over a two-week period to $2.65.
That's according to the national Lundberg Survey of fuel prices
released today.
Analyst Trilby Lundberg says the average price for a g
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| Health care talk...Terror suspects...Passenger safe... Nov 22 2009 8:53PM
Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson says he's
interested in a health care overhaul that doesn't mean "a
big-government, Washington-run operation." The Nebraska Democrat
also tells ABC the measure shouldn't undermine the "private
insurance that 200 million Ame
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| Preview of health care debate?...Death in Iraq....Bridge... Nov 22 2009 7:57PM
The nearly $1 trillion Senate health care bill
could be in for a rowdy debate on the Senate floor. Democrats have
already been sparring with each other on the Sunday talk shows, as
moderates threaten to scuttle any legislation that doesn't meet
their
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| Gas prices drop...Democrats feud over health care...Rationing of... Nov 22 2009 6:54PM
Drivers are getting a break at the gas
pump. The Lundberg Survey says the average price of regular gas
nationwide has dropped nearly 4 cents a gallon over a two-week
period to $2.65. Analyst Trilby Lundberg says the average price for
mid-grade was $2
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| Gas prices down...Internal debate begins for Democrats...Kick a... Nov 22 2009 5:02PM
The average price of regular gasoline
in the U.S. has dropped 3.64 cents over a two-week period, down to
$2.65. That's according to the national Lundberg Survey of fuel
prices released today. The survey finds the average price for a
gallon of mid-gra
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| RI bishop asked Kennedy in 2007 to avoid Communion Nov 22 2009 4:27PM
The Roman Catholic bishop of Rhode
Island says he asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy to stop receiving Holy
Communion in 2007 because of the lawmaker's support for abortion
rights.
That revelation Sunday proved an ugly climax to a simmering feud
betwee
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| Talking health care...Three Mile Island...Death in Iraq... Nov 22 2009 3:53PM
Floor debate is not expected to start until
after Thanksgiving, but Senate Democrats are already airing their
differences over health care. Some moderate Democrats are even
threatening to scuttle the bill if their demands aren't met. Ohio
Sen. Sherro
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| Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill Nov 22 2009 2:08PM
The Senate moderates who helped keep the
Democrats' health care bill alive yesterday are warning that they
could scuttle the bill if their demands are ignored.
In what could be a preview of the Senate floor debate to come,
senators have been air
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| Looking for a platform...Democrats debate...New Moon's big weekend... Nov 22 2009 1:46PM
The lawyer for one of the five men facing trial
in the Sept. 11 attacks says his client has told him the men will
plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S.
foreign policy. The Department of Justice says federal courts have
show
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| Democrats spar over health bill...9/11 defendants plan...Ocean... Nov 22 2009 12:57PM
In what could be a preview of the Senate floor
debate to come, senators are airing their differences over the
health care bill on the Sunday interview shows. Moderate Democrats
are threatening to scuttle the bill if their demands aren't met, to
the a
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| Durbin urges quick passage...9/11 defendants plan for... Nov 22 2009 11:47AM
Now that a health care overhaul bill is headed
for the Senate floor, a leading Democrat says senators must pass it
by the end of the year so they can concentrate on the economy and
job creation. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the majority whip,
tells
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Nov 22 2009 11:12AM
Two Democratic senators say the health care
overhaul bill now going to the Senate floor for debate is a key to
saving jobs and reducing the spiraling American budget deficit.
Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan says health care
cost redu
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| Democrats: Health care bill saves money and jobs Nov 22 2009 11:05AM
Two Democratic senators say the health care
overhaul bill now going to the Senate floor for debate is a key to
saving jobs and reducing the spiraling American budget deficit.
Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan says health care
cost redu
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| More debate to come...Mammogram advice...Three Mile Island... Nov 22 2009 11:05AM
Senate Democrats united last night to ensure
there'd be a full debate on a proposed health care overhaul, but
plenty of differences remain. Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson tells ABC he
has serious problems with the current bill and wants tougher
restriction
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| Durbin says deadline looming for health care bill Nov 22 2009 10:23AM
A leading Democratic senator says the proposed
health care overhaul must pass the Senate by the end of the year,
so that lawmakers can begin to concentrate on the economy and job
creation.
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the majority wh
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| Schumer says public option can pass the Senate Nov 22 2009 10:02AM
Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer says health care
reform that includes a public option can pass the Senate.
Schumer says he is assuring his more conservative Democratic
colleagues that the public option included in the Senate bill is
"modest" and n
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| Mammogram debate...Moderates' influence...Egypt warns Israel... Nov 22 2009 9:55AM
The former director of the National Institutes
of Health says women should ignore new guidelines on mammograms.
Dr. Bernadine Healy tells "Fox News Sunday" that the directive to
delay the start of routine testing for breast cancer would save
money
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| Nelson might not back next step for health bill Nov 22 2009 9:34AM
A moderate Democratic senator who voted to
allow debate over a health care bill says he might not support the
bill in its next hurdle in the Senate.
Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska says he has serious problems with
the bill. He says he wants tougher
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| Lawmaker says health bill won't limit mammograms Nov 22 2009 9:06AM
A Democratic lawmaker who has been treated for
breast cancer says worries that the proposed health care overhaul
would limit cancer screenings are overblown.
The lawmaker, Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of
Florida, says fears that mamm
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| GOP blasts health bill...4 dead in Iraq attacks...Space dad... Nov 22 2009 6:53AM
Republican Sen. Kit Bond says the Democratic
health care overhaul bill is "a trillion dollar scam." And the
full Senate debate that begins after Thanksgiving is likely to be
just as bruising. The Senate version cleared a major procedural
hurdle yeste
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| Health care debate...7 dead in India blast...Jackson auction... Nov 22 2009 4:54AM
A provision in the Senate health care bill
expected to get serious attention once the real debate begins after
Thanksgiving is the public insurance option. It's a provision for
the government to sell insurance in competition with private
companies, s
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| Health care bill survives...Mine rescue...Roadside bombing... Nov 22 2009 3:51AM
Senators will have the Thanksgiving holiday to
mull a 2,000-page health care bill after it survived a critical
vote last night. In a party-line, 60-39 vote, the Senate cleared
the way for debate on the legislation designed to cover roughly 31
million
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| Health care debate looms...Fort Hood hearing...India bombing... Nov 22 2009 2:55AM
A bruising, full debate of Senate health care
legislation looms after the Thanksgiving break after Democrats
mustered the 60 votes needed to win a key procedural vote.
Republicans were united in their opposition but the two
independents joined 58 D
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| GOP derides health care bill after it clears first hurdle in... Nov 22 2009 2:41AM
Republican leader Mitch McConnell says the
health care overhaul will create a "massive and unsustainable
debt" after a vote to advance the legislation in the Senate.
The vote split along party lines, with 39 Republicans lined up
in opposition. F
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| Overhaul advances...Ferry sinks...Subway stabbing Nov 22 2009 1:46AM
One of the final Democratic holdouts in the
Senate's push to advance the health care overhaul says "much more
work needs to be done." Before helping her party prevail with a
60-39 vote on the legislation, Sen. Mary Landrieu (LAN'-droo) said
"that doi
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| Biden says Senate handed Obama a big victory; decries "yelling and... Nov 22 2009 1:46AM
Vice President Joe Biden says the
advancement of a health care overhaul to full debate in the Senate
gives Democrats a healthy dose of momentum.
He's told Iowa Democrats that it's a big victory for President
Barack Obama's signature initiative.
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| Kennedy remembered in health vote...India bomb blasts...Spacewalk... Nov 22 2009 12:56AM
The memory of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
played a role as Senate Democrats pulled themselves together with
the chamber's two independents to get the 60 votes needed to
advance the health care overhaul. Kennedy was a long-time proponent
of health
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| Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle Nov 22 2009 12:14AM
Memories of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a
long-time proponent of health care, figured prominently as
Democrats united to push the overhaul bill over a key hurdle in the
Senate Saturday.
The 60-39 vote cleared the way for a full-scale debate
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| Health bill moves forward...Boardwalk fire under control...Iran air... Nov 22 2009 12:07AM
The White House says President Barack Obama is
gratified by the vote Saturday night that moves a Democratic health
care overhaul bill to the Senate floor. A spokesman says Obama is
looking forward to "a thorough and productive debate." The 60-39
vote
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Nov 21 2009 11:06PM
The White House is hailing tonight's test vote
that moves a nearly $1 trillion health-care overhaul bill to the
Senate floor.
A statement says the vote brings the U.S. "one step closer to
ending insurance company abuses" and "reining in spiralin
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| White House comments...Biden speaks...Big money for 1 glove... Nov 21 2009 10:52PM
The White House is hailing tonight's vote that
moves a nearly $1 trillion health-care overhaul bill to the Senate
floor. A spokesman says President Barack Obama is looking forward
to a "thorough and productive debate" on the measure. The
full-scale d
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| Senate to debate health care bill...Hasan to stay put for now...NYC... Nov 21 2009 9:56PM
The White House says President Barack Obama is
gratified by tonight's Senate vote to proceed with floor debate on
proposed health care overhaul legislation. The Democrats posted 60
votes the number needed to overcome Republican delaying tactics.
T
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| Biden seeks to rally base Nov 21 2009 9:15PM
Vice President Joe Biden says the Senate
has handed President Barack Obama a big victory on health care that
will be a political boost to the Democrats.
Biden made his comments Saturday at the Iowa Democratic Party's
largest fundraiser, the Jeff
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| Health care bill moves forward...Hasan will be held...Fire on... Nov 21 2009 8:47PM
The Senate will hold a historic debate on
health care after Thanksgiving. The Democrats' nearly $1 trillion
overhaul has cleared its first hurdle on a party-line vote of
60-39. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a statement saying
the presiden
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| Test vote passes...Ft. Hood hearing...Boardwalk blaze... Nov 21 2009 7:57PM
Sweeping health care overhaul legislation has
cleared its first hurdle. Tonight's 60-39 Senate vote moves the
measure to full-scale floor debate after Thanksgiving. The bill
would require most Americans to get health insurance and give
subsidies to t
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| WASHINGTON (AP) Health care bill clears first Senate hurdle on partylin... Nov 21 2009 7:16PM
Health care bill clears first Senate hurdle on
party-line vote.
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| Hasan will be held until trial...Democrats ready for health... Nov 21 2009 6:47PM
A military magistrate has ruled that the Army
psychiatrist charged in one of the worst mass shootings on a U.S.
military base will be held until trial. For now, Maj. Nidal Hasan
will stay in the military hospital in San Antonio where today's
hearin
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| Not guilty...Still waiting...Vote coming Nov 21 2009 5:44PM
A military judge in Texas has found a former
Air Force nurse not guilty of murder. Capt. Michael Fontana was
accused of giving three terminally ill patients enough painkillers
to speed their deaths. After the verdict, Fontana says he's never
regrette
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| Democrats get important vote...Air Force nurse Nov 21 2009 4:41PM
Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln says she will
vote with her party to move the health care debate to the Senate
floor. The centrist Democrat was the lone holdout. Democrats now
have the needed 60 votes to move the bill ahead. A roll call vote
will be he
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| The debate is on...War games in Iran...Gaza militants agree to stop... Nov 21 2009 3:52PM
Democratic leaders appear to have secured the
last two votes they need to move the health care debate forward in
the Senate. Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Louisiana Sen. Mary
Landrieu (LAN'-droo) say they'll stand with their party and vote
"yes"
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| Health bill expected to survive...McCain on Fort Hood, Palin...Life... Nov 21 2009 2:56PM
The Senate's last two holdouts have announced
they'll go along with their fellow Democrats in tonight's key test
vote on health care legislation. The decisions by Sens. Blanche
Lincoln of Arkansas and Mary Landrieu (LAN'-droo) of Louisiana give
Democ
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| Democrats have the votes...Iran to conduct war drill...More holiday... Nov 21 2009 1:53PM
Democratic leaders have the 60 votes they need
to keep their health care bill alive. The final undecided centrist,
Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln, says she'll join 57 other Democrats
and two independents in voting to move ahead with a sweeping bill
to
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| URGENT Nov 21 2009 1:53PM
Democrats have hit the magic number of 60 to
move ahead on historic health care legislation.
Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln said on the Senate floor that she
will vote with her party, hours before the 8 p.m. EST roll call.
She said it was im
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| WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Blanche Lincoln says she'll vote 'yes' on health c... Nov 21 2009 1:46PM
Sen. Blanche Lincoln says she'll vote 'yes' on
health care test vote, giving Democrats 60.
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| One vote closer...McCain on alleged Fort Hood shooter...Klan rally... Nov 21 2009 12:43PM
Democrats are one vote closer to assuring
debate on their health care bill will move forward in the Senate.
Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (LAN'-droo) says she will vote with
her party on a crucial test vote this evening. The Democratic
moderate says
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| WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu says she will vote with p... Nov 21 2009 11:54AM
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu says she will
vote with party to move ahead on health care bill.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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| Health care session...War talk...New Moon's big bite... Nov 21 2009 11:47AM
The Senate is holding a Saturday session on
what Democrats are describing as a long overdue overhaul of the
nation's health care system. Republicans are deriding the effort as
a "trillion-dollar scam." A vote is expected around 8 p.m.
(Eastern time
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| Senate mulls fate of reform bill...Iran to hold war games...Motown... Nov 21 2009 11:05AM
The Senate has begun debate ahead of a key
test vote later today on the fate of a health care overhaul bill.
Democratic leaders need 60 votes to keep their bill alive and send
it to the Senate floor for debate after Thanksgiving. Republicans
are ho
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| Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment:... Nov 21 2009 11:05AM
The Senate is holding a Saturday session on
health care.
Democratic leaders are optimistic they'll have enough votes by
the end of the day to move ahead with debate on an overhaul bill.
With 60 votes required to proceed, they need the support
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| Key Senate vote today...Obama: Asia trade could add jobs...Walking... Nov 21 2009 9:55AM
Democratic leaders are optimistic they'll have
enough votes by the end of the day to move ahead with debate on a
Senate health care bill. With 60 votes required to proceed, they
need the support of all the Senate Democrats and both independents.
If
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