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New Dem lawmakers feeling heat on health care

WASHINGTON (AP) — Freshman Rep. Steve Driehaus is getting it from all sides on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.



The Ohio Democrat opened his local newspaper, The Cincinnati Enquirer, on Wednesday to find a giant ad urging him to vote against the bill — featuring a photo of him with his two young daughters. Tea party protesters stormed his office and berated his staff.



On the other hand, he was heading to the White House Thursday to be wooed by Obama. And there was talk of Catholic nuns in his district organizing a candlelight vigil supporting the bill.



Of the few dozen House Democrats who could cast the deciding votes on health care, none are getting more pressure than the first- and second-term moderates like Driehaus who gave the Democratic Party control of Congress in the past two elections — and whose fate in November could decide who's in charge next yea.

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Cornhusker Kickback gets the boot in health bill

March 19, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bye bye, Cornhusker Kickback. Hello, special treatment for Tennessee and North Dakota.

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Feds: brakes weren't applied on crashed NY Prius

March 19, 2010

HARRISON, N.Y.

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Calif. bikers eyed in police building booby traps

March 19, 2010

RIVERSIDE, Calif.

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Gunman kills store clerk working last shift

March 19, 2010

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) — Indian-born Gurpreet Singh was working his final shift as a convenience store clerk — before starting a full-time job at a hospital — when he was gunned down during a...

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Fess Parker, TV's 'Davy Crockett,' dies at 85

March 19, 2010

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 8.

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