A bad senior moment: the GOP won this Medicare fight. Now, Dems must keep seniors (and themselves) united.
American Prospect, The, January, 2004 by Skocpol, Theda
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IN A MIDDLE-OF-THE NIGHT VOTE HELD OPEN FOR AN UNprecedented three hours on Nov. 21-22, Republican leaders finally corralled enough conservatives to ram through the House of Representatives a bill restructuring Medicare and authorizing a limited prescriptionp-drug benefit. The vote was 220-to-215.
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Three days later, the Senate passed the same bill by a broader margin, 54-to-44. In early December, President Bush happily signed the Medicare restructuring into law, crowing that it fulfilled his party's campaign promises--not only to help seniors pay for prescriptions but also to ...
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