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Pelosi Defends Deem-and-Pass Tactic

By Tory Newmyer
Roll Call Staff
March 18, 2010, 2:29 p.m.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) dismissed as a “nonissue” a procedural maneuver House Democrats are eyeing to pass their health care overhaul in the wake of comments by Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) that the move would be “disingenuous” and harm Congressional credibility.

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