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Webb Says He’ll Support Health Care Package for Now

By David M. Drucker
Roll Call Staff
Dec. 20, 2009, 8:17 p.m.

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) announced Sunday evening he will support Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) $871 billion health care reform package but warned that he could withhold his backing for the final bill as negotiated in the House-Senate conference committee if he is unhappy with any changes made to the legislation.

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