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        "uri": "/2013/12/16/budget-deal-targets-federal-pensions/",
        "title": "Budget deal targets federal pensions",
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        "prettyDate": "December 16, 2013",
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        "summary": "Most federal civilian employees hired beginning in January will contribute 4.4 percent of their pay to their pension plans under the House-passed budget bill the Senate is expected to approve this week.",
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        "uri": "/2013/11/06/hundreds-of-website-fixes-required/",
        "title": "Hundreds of website fixes required",
        "byline": "Alan Fram, Laurie Kellman",
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        "prettyDate": "November 06, 2013",
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        "summary": "HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday the administration's health care website needed a couple of hundred fixes when it went online more than a month ago and conceded, \"we're not there yet\" in making all needed repairs.",
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        "uri": "/2013/11/05/tavenner-says-website-improved-and-improving/",
        "title": "Tavenner says website improved and improving",
        "byline": "Alan Fram, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar",
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        "prettyDate": "November 05, 2013",
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        "summary": "Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the government's health care website has improved since its widely panned launch a month ago, and is still improving.",
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        "uri": "/2013/11/05/senators-grapple-with-health-care-rollout-woes/",
        "title": "Senators grapple with health care rollout woes",
        "byline": "Alan Fram, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar",
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        "prettyDate": "November 05, 2013",
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        "summary": "A senior government official declined to say Tuesday if the administration will support legislation to fulfill President Barack Obama's oft-stated promise that anyone who likes their health care plan will be able to keep it under the nation's new law.",
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        "uri": "/2013/10/23/ppaca-rollout-worries-house-dems/",
        "title": "PPACA rollout worries House Dems",
        "byline": "Alan Fram, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar",
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        "prettyDate": "October 23, 2013",
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        "summary": "House Democrats are worried about persistent problems with the rollout of President Barack Obama's health care law and one says the president needs to \"man up\" and fire those responsible.",
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        "uri": "/2013/10/09/obama-plans-to-talk-to-gop-again/",
        "title": "Obama plans to talk to GOP again",
        "byline": "Alan Fram",
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        "prettyDate": "October 09, 2013",
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        "summary": "President Barack Obama is making plans to talk with Republican lawmakers at the White House in the coming days as pressure builds on both sides to resolve their deadlock over the federal debt limit and the partial government shutdown.",
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        "uri": "/2013/10/03/government-shutdown-drags-on/",
        "title": "Government shutdown drags on",
        "byline": "Alan Fram",
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        "prettyDate": "October 03, 2013",
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        "summary": "The government limped into a third day of partial shutdown Thursday with no sign of a way out after a White House conversation between President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders seemed only to harden the stances of Democrats and Republicans.",
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        "uri": "/2013/09/27/senate-approves-bill-averting-government-shutdown/",
        "title": "Senate approves bill averting government shutdown",
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        "prettyDate": "September 27, 2013",
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        "summary": "The Democratic-run Senate has approved legislation aimed at preventing a Tuesday federal shutdown.",
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        "uri": "/2013/09/27/senate-set-to-ok-budget-bill/",
        "title": "Senate set to OK budget bill",
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        "prettyDate": "September 27, 2013",
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        "summary": "A potential government shutdown hurtling ever closer, the Democratic-led Senate moved Friday toward approving legislation keeping federal agencies from locking their doors on Tuesday.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/08/02/40th-times-a-charm/",
        "title": "40th time’s a charm",
        "byline": "Alan Fram",
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        "prettyDate": "August 02, 2013",
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        "summary": "Maybe the 40th vote to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law will be a charm for opponents of the overhaul.",
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