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To: mishedlo who wrote (109777)	3/21/2010 7:39:47 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

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To: mishedlo who wrote (109777)	3/21/2010 11:19:22 AM
From: riversides	Respond to of 116555

Vote on Health Bill Today Caps a Journey Back From the Brink nytimes.com Responding to a Setback The polls were still open in Massachusetts on Jan. 19 when Mr. Obama met in the Oval Office with David Plouffe, his top outside confidant and former campaign manager. Mr. Brown’s victory — he would take Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s old seat — was all but certain, and Mr. Obama’s 60-vote supermajority in the Senate had suddenly vanished. Mr. Brown had made clear his objections to the health care legislation. “One thing is clear,” he proclaimed on election night, “voters do not want the trillion-dollar health care bill that is being forced on the American people.” At that moment, the president did not know whether, or how, to proceed. The House and Senate had passed different versions of the bill and could not come to terms. Republicans were unified in their resistance. He considered his options, including Mr. Emanuel’s “skinny bill.” Whatever the course, aides said, Mr. Obama was insistent that health care not be put into a “time capsule,” never to be opened again in his tenure. Tom Daschle, a close outside adviser, said Mr. Obama believed that health care would be his legacy. “This is what his presidency is about,” he said. On Jan. 21, Representative Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat and a powerful committee chairman, headed to the White House for a banking industry announcement. He had been openly skeptical about the prospects for the health measure. 1-2-3 Next Page »

To: mishedlo who wrote (109777)	3/21/2010 11:22:48 AM
From: riversides	Respond to of 116555

Nancy Pelosi steeled White House for health push politico.com Life before Scott Brown The groundwork for Sunday’s vote was laid out during a three-day marathon White House negotiating session, which took place in the week before the Massachusetts special election Jan. 19. The fact Brown might take Ted Kennedy’s old seat – and what that would mean for health reform — didn’t dawn on the principals involved on the bill at first, but it eventually began to sink in, lending the effort a sense of increased urgency, according to a senior Senate aide. In sessions that stretched into the early morning hours, Obama helped House and Senate Democrats resolve their biggest policy battles. And they left the White House the Friday afternoon before the vote with a tentative agreement. Looking back, congressional Democrats, demoralized and frustrated after the Massachusetts loss, may well have decided that they were too far apart and too exhausted to push ahead, if they didn’t have that deal. But there was a stark reminder during those three days of the differing styles of the House and the Senate, and how that divide would define the next two months. On the second day, Obama asked the House and Senate leaders to return after dinner with $70 billion in suggested cuts from the bill. The senators hunkered down in Sen. Max Baucus’s office, ordered pizzas and drew up a list of trims. Each senator gave up something, aides said. Later that night, back at the White House, the House presented its approach: They would cut nothing. Obama, not persuaded, sent them to different rooms, and told them to keep working at it. Eventually, they whittled the gap down to $20 billion, and Obama made his own suggestions. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, seemed pleased. “I don’t speak for the House, but you have put forward a serious set of numbers,” he said to Obama, according to a person present. 1-2-3 Next Page »