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From: The Washington Times | July 27, 2009
A key Senate Democrat said Sunday that passing a major health care bill is impossible without Republican support, though the chamber’s top Republicans were not forthcoming with such support on the weekend’s political talk shows. “Look, there are not the votes for Democrats to do this just on our side of the aisle,” Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat and a member of the Senate Finance Committee crafting the bill, said on ABC’s “This Week.” On the House side, Rep. Jim Cooper, Tennessee Democrat and a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dogs, was just as doubtful about his chamber’s …
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