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The Rose Garden: White House Strategy on Climate, Health Bills Comes Into Focus

By Keith Koffler
Roll Call Staff
June 15, 2009, Midnight

Health care reform and a climate-change-fighting energy bill have always topped President Barack Obama’s priority list. But which one should move first — and which one was really Obama’s first priority — has caused some confusion on Capitol Hill.

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February 9, 2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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