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GOP Girding for Battle Over Reconciliation

By David M. Drucker
Roll Call Staff
March 2, 2010, Midnight

With President Barack Obama set to green-light the use of reconciliation to pass health care legislation, Senate Republicans are preparing to wage a unified floor and message war to block this 51-vote strategy — and lay the groundwork for what they hope will be big electoral gains in November.

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