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Health care reform movement fights for last minute changes
December 20, 2009WASHINGTON—The Democratic Senate leadership claimed victory in securing 60 votes to end the Republican filibuster of a health care reform bill Dec. 18 but organizations representing millions of voters said basic changes must be made to...
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Working people cannot accept anything less than real reform, says labor leader
December 17, 2009AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks out on the most recent version of the Senate health care bill.
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Lieberman says he’ll filibuster Medicare buy-in
December 14, 2009Democrats in the Senate who thought they had a compromise progressives and "centrists" could both support learned this weekend that independent Sen. Joe Lieberman can be counted on to do just about anything to sabotage health...
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