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Health Care Onslaught Jams House Web and Phone System

By Daniel Newhauser
Roll Call Staff
March 16, 2010, 3:47 p.m.

House Web sites and phone systems were jammed to the point of failure this afternoon from masses of constituent e-mails and phone calls related to the impending health care reform bill, according to House offices and administrators.

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