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The nation in brief

Posted: December 6, 2009 at 4:44 a.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “That’s why they give us 15 minutes.” Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., who switched her vote from “no” to “yes” in the 15-minute vote on a Republican proposal, which was ultimately defeated, to restore $42 billion in funds to home health services in the chamber’s health-care bill Article, 1A

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