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      {
        "uri": "/2013/12/09/prospects-dim-for-fast-renewal-of-jobless-benefits/",
        "title": "Prospects dim for fast renewal of jobless benefits",
        "byline": "David Espo",
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        "prettyDate": "December 09, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "Some congressional Democrats said they would continue to press to make additional benefits for jobless workers part of the bill, but it was unclear how strongly the White House would support them.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/11/15/house-oks-coverage-plans-short-of-ppaca-rules/",
        "title": "House OKs coverage plans short of PPACA rules",
        "byline": "David Espo",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "November 15, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "The Republican-controlled House has passed legislation letting insurance companies sell individual coverage to all comers, even if it falls short of standards set in PPACA.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/11/15/house-gop-gets-its-say-on-plan-cancellations/",
        "title": "House GOP gets its say on plan cancellations",
        "byline": "David Espo",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "November 15, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "Republicans renewed an assault on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and his own credibility on Friday as they pushed toward House passage of a measure to let insurers keep offering health coverage that falls short of the law's standards.",
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        "uri": "/2013/11/14/democrats-unhappy-with-enrollment-numbers/",
        "title": "Democrats unhappy with enrollment numbers",
        "byline": "David Espo",
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        "prettyDate": "November 14, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "summary": "Add simmering Democratic discontent to the problems plaguing \"Obamacare,\" now that first-month enrollment figures are out.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/11/14/obama-to-allow-sale-of-canceled-plans/",
        "title": "Obama to allow sale of canceled plans",
        "byline": "David Espo",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "November 14, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "8 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "Bowing to pressure, President Barack Obama on Thursday announced changes to his health care law to give insurance companies the option to keep offering consumers plans that would otherwise be canceled.",
        "body": null
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/11/07/sebelius-takes-more-heat-over-obamacare/",
        "title": "Sebelius takes more heat over Obamacare",
        "byline": "David Espo",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "November 07, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "7 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "Republicans blistered Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday over the nation's controversial health care law, bluntly challenging her honesty, pushing for her resignation and demanding unsuccessfully she concede that President Barack Obama deliberately misled the public about his signature domestic program.",
        "body": null
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/11/04/lawmakers-push-to-keep-obamas-health-care-pledge/",
        "title": "Lawmakers push to keep Obama's health care pledge",
        "byline": "David Espo",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "November 04, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        ],
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        "summary": "Little more than a week after millions of consumers received health care cancellation notices, lawmakers in both parties are pushing legislation to redeem President Barack Obama's long-ago pledge that anyone liking their coverage will be allowed to keep it under the nation's controversial new law.",
        "body": null
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/10/16/congress-votes-to-avoid-default/",
        "title": "Congress votes to avoid default",
        "byline": "David Espo",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 16, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "8 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "Congress passed and sent a waiting President Barack Obama legislation late Wednesday night to avoid a threatened national default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown, the culmination of an epic political drama that placed the U.S. economy at risk.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/10/14/senate-leaders-optimistic-about-budget-deal/",
        "title": "Senate leaders optimistic about budget deal",
        "byline": "David Espo",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 14, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "7 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "After weeks of stubborn gridlock, the Senate's top two leaders raced on Monday to reach an agreement that could head off a Treasury default that threatens severe national economic damage and reopen the government after a two-week partial shutdown.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2013/09/30/gop-unity-frays-as-shutdown-nears/",
        "title": "GOP unity frays as shutdown nears",
        "byline": "David Espo",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "September 30, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "summary": "Their unity fraying, House Republicans bent but did not blink Monday in their demand for changes in the nation's health care overhaul as the price for preventing the first partial government shutdown in 17 years.",
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