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    Speaking slowly and forcefully from his wheelchair, Byrd directly challenged counter-insurgency strategy proposed by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. Central Command. Full Article at ABC News
    Speaking slowly and forcefully from his wheelchair, Byrd directly challenged counter-insurgency strategy proposed by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. Central Command.
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The Note: Can Obama Break Health Care Logjam?
  1. Ron Williams, Aetna Inc.'s chief executive, has been working with the White House and Senate Finance Committee in an attempt to mend a rift between insurers and Democrats sparked by an industry-funded study critical of the measure
    SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago
  2. Not exactly a lit city square in prime time, but the comparisons to Bush are have arrived anyway
    SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago
  3. Buying a professional football team, or any kind of professional sports team, is a very odd enterprise
    Karl Rove – Karl Rove SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago
  4. I venture to say that without a robust public option, a bill cannot get out of the House of Representatives.
    SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago
  5. Even as Democrats and Obama celebrate a victory in the Senate Finance Committee, where Chairman Max Baucus' health care bill passed by a 14-9 vote Tuesday, they face what could be a tougher battle ahead
    SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago
  6. And the moderates' reluctance to commit showed just how far health reform still has to go, despite getting a boost from Tuesday's Senate Finance Committee vote.
    SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago
  7. Mr. Obama's problem is that his Magic Kingdom Health Care World is colliding with reality. There is a big cost to any large government expansion -- and the ways to cover the cost of Mr. Obama's plan are limited, unpopular, and sure to anger Americans once they are fully understood
    SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago
  8. This PAC has already recruited supporters and sponsors from states that are home to BCS schools in Georgia, Texas and California and will announce endorsements from elected officials in some of those states in addition to Utah, Idaho and Hawaii next week.
    SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago
  9. By creating a two-bill approach, Democrats intend to claim the more comprehensive health care measure meets President Barack Obama's conditions -- that it will neither add to deficits nor exceed $900 billion in costs over 10 years.
    SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago
  10. Before the president even steps foot on the ground in Louisiana, critics in the region have taken aim at the administration on several fronts: They fault him for waiting nine months before going to New Orleans, staying for only four hours and not going to any of the other states affected by the devastat...
    SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago

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