Author: Noam N. Levey
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House leaders shift strategy on health care vote
As President Obama went to the Capitol for a last-minute push on his healthcare overhaul Saturday, House leaders shifted their parliamentary strategy and said they would have a straight up-or-down vote on the Senate version of the bill. Republicans have repeatedly accused the Democrats of trying to avoid a politically charged vote on the Senate…
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For Democrats, a new roadblock to legislation
WASHINGTON — The Democratic Party’s humiliating defeat in the Massachusetts special election for the Senate on Tuesday drops an enormous boulder in the path of President Barack Obama’s agenda in Congress, as the loss of a single, critical vote will force his party to scale down its legislative ambitions and rethink its political strategy. The…
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A stethoscope and a laptop: Some doctors going digital
VERO BEACH, Fla. — A stethoscope with three tiny koala bears dangling from his neck and eyeglasses perched on his nose, Dennis Saver looks every bit the family doctor as he steps into the examining room of his small practice on Florida’s Treasure Coast. When Saver begins to examine his patient, however, the 56-year-old physician…