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Senate Votes to Open Health Care Debate
11/22/2009 1:55:49 PM
The Senate voted 60 to 39 on Saturday night to begin full debate on major health care legislation, propelling the bill over a crucial, preliminary hurdle.
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Senator Cements Role at Heart of Health Debate
11/22/2009 1:55:49 PM
In advance of next year’s re-election bid, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas sided with fellow Democrats for one vote, but was cautious about the overall bill.
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Enthusiasm for Palin, and Echoes of 2008 Divide
11/22/2009 1:55:49 PM
On her book tour, Sarah Palin has skipped the big cities authors usually visit in favor of smaller places where she and Senator John McCain performed well on the presidential ticket.
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Kennedy Says R.I. Bishop Banned Him From Communion
11/22/2009 1:55:49 PM
Rep. Patrick Kennedy said that Bishop Thomas Tobin banned him from receiving Communion in Rhode Island because of the congressman’s support for abortion rights.
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Glenn Beck Stakes Out Activist Role in Politics
11/22/2009 1:55:49 PM
The conservative firebrand Glenn Beck is planning voter registration drives and rallies, but he is cautious about how he might directly support particular candidates.
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The talk shows
11/22/2009 1:55:52 PM
Guests to be interviewed Sunday on major television talk shows:
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Senate Democrats vote to bring health bill to floor for debate
11/22/2009 1:55:52 PM
The Senate voted along party lines Saturday night to overcome a Republican filibuster and bring to the floor a bill that would overhaul the nation's health-care system.
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Sunday Take: Divided public complicates Afghanistan decision
11/22/2009 1:55:52 PM
As President Obama nears a decision on Afghanistan, he faces a partisan divide in public opinion that is pulling him in opposite directions. His recent statements about the decision suggest that he is trying to accommodate the views with a war strategy that can be successful and contained.
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Health bill opponents make most of mammogram advisory
11/22/2009 1:55:52 PM
As a health reform bill endorsed by President Obama marches toward its first Senate floor vote on Saturday, his opponents stepped up efforts to define the legislation as big-government ambition run amok that will interfere with intimate medical decisions and threaten the pocketbooks of average ta...
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Hasan had intensified contact with radical Yemeni American cleric
11/22/2009 1:55:52 PM
In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers and other steps that could translate his thoughts into action, according to two sources brie...
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