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Posted: 11/3/2009 5:47:35 AM EDT
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The outcome of those talks could be crucial in deciding the fate of the health-care bill. Democrats need the vast majority of their caucus to back the bill, since nearly all congressional Republicans have said they will oppose the legislation. "I will continue whipping my colleagues to oppose bringing the bill to the floor for a vote until a clean vote against public funding for abortion is allowed," Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said Monday in a statement. He said last week that 40 Democrats could vote with him to oppose the legislation –– enough to derail the bill. Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, cast Stupak as "attempting to ban abortion coverage in the private insurance market." ... Now he has to leave DC just days before the vote because his mother-in-law passed away unexpectedly Sunday in Escanaba, Mich.  This guy was leading the democrat opposition to the bill. How.... coincodental |
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