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		<title>Texas beats Washington</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/03/03/texas-beats-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lee Pitts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas Gov. Rick Perry easily held off a challenge from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in winning the state&#8217;s Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday night. In fact, Perry&#8217;s surprisingly  easy nearly 20-point victory suggests that the nation&#8217;s anti-Washington rant is being carried to the ballot box. Hutchison, who has served in the U.S. Senate since 1993,  was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday morning quarterback: the healthcare summit</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2010/02/26/friday-morning-quarterback-the-healthcare-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lee Pitts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In perhaps the biggest drama of the Thursday healthcare summit, President Obama interrupted a rant by Sen. John McCain against the “backroom deals” behind much of the current healthcare legislation:
“We’re not campaigning anymore,” the president told his Republican opponent in the 2008 election. “The election is over.”
But the day did seem to be mostly about [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>Senate leader to unveil healthcare bill today</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/18/senate-leader-to-unveil-healthcare-bill-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lee Pitts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will release today his version of healthcare reform. This is the latest in a long line of Democratic healthcare overhaul measures that have dominated Congress this year. Three House committees and two Senate committees passed their healthcare proposals before the full House approved their measure earlier this month.
Reid’s long-awaited version [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Byrd now longest serving member of Congress</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/11/18/byrd-now-longest-serving-member-of-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lee Pitts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd becomes the longest-serving member of Congress. He served in the House of Representatives from 1953-1959 and his current run the Senate began in 1959. This leads to a grand total of 56 years, 10 months, and 16 days. He broke the record previously set by Carl Hayden, the Democrat [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Politics or baseball?</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/28/politics-or-baseball/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/28/politics-or-baseball/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lee Pitts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corzine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the first pitch of the World Series happening tonight, political pundits are fretting that folks in New Jersey may suddenly find themselves more interested in the Yankees versus the Phillies than in Corzine vs. Christie. The two teams in this year&#8217;s Fall Classic are located near New Jersey, and already the heated governor&#8217;s race [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hate crimes bill to become law</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/27/hate-crimes-bill-to-become-law/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/27/hate-crimes-bill-to-become-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lee Pitts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Department of Defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hate crimes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The White House has announced that President Obama on Wednesday will sign into law the defense spending bill that contains sweeping new hate crimes legislation.
Obama will sign into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 Wednesday afternoon.  Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Members of Congress, and others will join him.
Then later that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>228</slash:comments>
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		<title>Government to be the insurer?</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/26/government-to-be-the-insurer/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/26/government-to-be-the-insurer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lee Pitts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News is breaking this afternoon that the Senate version of healthcare overhaul will include a government-run insurance option.  This greatly increases the likelihood of a public plan becoming part of any healthcare legislation.
The House bill already includes a government-run option.  But many observers doubted if the Senate, where Democrats have a thinner majority than the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Maine healthcare connection</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/14/obamas-maine-healthcare-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/14/obamas-maine-healthcare-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lee Pitts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Olympia Snowe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[usan Collins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is up with President Obama and Maine? One day after Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe backed the Democrats&#8217; healthcare proposal, becoming the first Senate Republican to vote for a healthcare bill this year, her Maine GOP colleague, Susan Collins, said she is open to voting for the measure as well when it comes before [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time for the smoke-filled back-room meetings?</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/13/time-for-the-smoke-filled-back-room-meetings/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/13/time-for-the-smoke-filled-back-room-meetings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lee Pitts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With today’s passage of the Senate Finance Committee’s healthcare bill, a total of three healthcare bills from five committees are now ready for their close-up on the main stages of the House and Senate. But which bill will lawmakers really vote on?  Now that committee action is finished, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is set [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Healthcare &#8211; what&#8217;s next?</title>
		<link>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/09/healthcare-whats-next/</link>
		<comments>http://online.worldmag.com/2009/10/09/healthcare-whats-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Lee Pitts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate-Finance-Committee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The seemingly never-ending congressional healthcare debate looks closer to completion now with the Congressional Budget Office&#8217;s lower than expected estimate for a key Senate Finance Committee version. What to expect next? A likely passage of that bill by the committee next Tuesday, then Democratic congressional leaders will look to seize that momentum by quickly bringing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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