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GOP Mounts Message Offensive to Defeat Health Care

Senate Republicans on Thursday began ramping up their message offensive against President Barack Obama’s final push to pass health care reform, taking to the floor and the airwaves to argue against the measure and warn Democrats that the issue would sink their re-election hopes.

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Megan Colon (right) and Gail Ribas, from the office of New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, hang a sign Feb. 6 congratulating the New York Giants for their Super Bowl win over the New England Patriots on the previous day. The sign refers to “New Jersey’s Giants” because the team plays in that state.
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