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Parties Engage in Dueling Stunts on Health Care

By Jennifer Bendery and Jackie Kucinich
Roll Call Staff
Nov. 3, 2009, 5:08 p.m.

House Republicans hoping to garner media attention Tuesday with a reading of the 1,990-page House Democratic health care bill had to compete for the spotlight with Democrats staging a stunt of their own designed to show the lack of ideas brought forward by Republicans.

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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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