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Time to Give Credit Where Due as Deficit Picture Brightens a Bit

By Stan Collender
Roll Call Contributing Writer
Oct. 13, 2009, Midnight

The Congressional Budget Office was much in the news Wednesday when its cost estimate showed that the health care bill being considered by the Senate Finance Committee would reduce rather than increase the deficit.

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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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