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Pelosi Prepares to Move Ahead With 'Robust' Public Option

By Tory Newmyer
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 20, 2009, 9:35 p.m.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is on the verge of pushing ahead with a liberal version of the public insurance option in a health care overhaul, pending the result of a final survey of House Democrats on the issue.

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