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Dec 24 2009

Health care bill on brink of Senate passage (AP)

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Health care bill on brink of Senate passage
(AP)

Senate Majority Leader of Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, accompanied by Senate Democrats, speaks during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. From left are, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn,, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Reid, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP – Democrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage Wednesday, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obama’s call to remake the nation’s health care system.

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Dec 24 2009

Health care bill on brink of Senate passage (AP)

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Health care bill on brink of Senate passage
(AP)

Senate Majority Leader of Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, accompanied by Senate Democrats, speaks during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. From left are, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn,, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Reid, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP – Democrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage Wednesday, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obama’s call to remake the nation’s health care system.

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Dec 22 2009

Dems, White House predict success on health care (AP)

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Dems, White House predict success on health care
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. gestures during a health care rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009. From left are, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. Reid, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP – From the White House to Capitol Hill, Democrats on Tuesday confidently predicted Senate passage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul after the bill cleared its second 60-vote test and the time was set for a final tally.

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Dec 21 2009

Obama, Dems on track for pre-Christmas health bill (AP)

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Obama, Dems on track for pre-Christmas health bill
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., fourth from right, accompanied by Senate Committee chairmen and American Medical Association President Cecil Wilson, addresses a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington,  Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – President Barack Obama cheered a crucial health care vote in the Senate on Monday that put historic legislation well on its way to pre-Christmas passage and which sharpened already edgy partisan tensions.

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Dec 21 2009

Obama, Dems on track for pre-Christmas health bill (AP)

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Obama, Dems on track for pre-Christmas health bill
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., fourth from right, accompanied by Senate Committee chairmen and American Medical Association President Cecil Wilson, addresses a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington,  Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – President Barack Obama cheered a crucial health care vote in the Senate on Monday that put historic legislation well on its way to pre-Christmas passage and which sharpened already edgy partisan tensions.

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Dec 21 2009

Obama, Dems on track for pre-Christmas health bill (AP)

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Obama, Dems on track for pre-Christmas health bill
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., fourth from right, accompanied by Senate Committee chairmen and American Medical Association President Cecil Wilson, addresses a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington,  Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – President Barack Obama cheered a crucial health care vote in the Senate on Monday that put historic legislation well on its way to pre-Christmas passage and which sharpened already edgy partisan tensions.

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Dec 21 2009

Obama, Dems on track for pre-Christmas health bill (AP)

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Obama, Dems on track for pre-Christmas health bill
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., fourth from right, accompanied by Senate Committee chairmen and American Medical Association President Cecil Wilson, addresses a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington,  Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – President Barack Obama cheered a crucial health care vote in the Senate on Monday that put historic legislation well on its way to pre-Christmas passage and which sharpened already edgy partisan tensions.

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Dec 20 2009

Snow storm hits southern New England (AP)

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Snow storm hits southern New England
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People dressed as Santa Claus cross a street on their way to a bar during a snow storm in Philadelphia, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP – A slow-moving storm that blanketed swaths of the mid-Atlantic with nearly 2 feet of snow reached southern New England on Sunday in a weekend assault along the East Coast that caused at least five deaths, crippled travel and left empty stores normally crammed with holiday shoppers.

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Dec 20 2009

Snow storm hits southern New England (AP)

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Snow storm hits southern New England
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People dressed as Santa Claus cross a street on their way to a bar during a snow storm in Philadelphia, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP – A slow-moving storm that blanketed swaths of the mid-Atlantic with nearly 2 feet of snow reached southern New England on Sunday in a weekend assault along the East Coast that caused at least five deaths, crippled travel and left empty stores normally crammed with holiday shoppers.

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Dec 19 2009

UN conference recognizes climate deal (AP)

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UN conference recognizes climate deal
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President Barack Obama makes a statement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – The U.N. climate conference has agreed to recognize a political accord brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers.

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