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Lawmakers Battling to Summer’s End Over Health Care

By Casey Hynes
Roll Call Staff
Aug. 31, 2009, 1:50 p.m.

As some lawmakers invoked the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) legacy to urge passage of a health care overhaul this fall, opponents and advocates of a public health insurance option continued to battle it out at town halls this weekend.

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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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