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        "uri": "/2013/11/19/christie-blasts-ppaca-rollout/",
        "title": "Christie blasts PPACA rollout",
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        "prettyDate": "November 19, 2013",
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        "summary": "New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is a \"failure\" and predicts it \"will not succeed it just won't.\"",
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        "uri": "/2013/10/28/gop-set-to-grill-sebelius-on-ppaca/",
        "title": "GOP set to grill Sebelius on PPACA",
        "byline": "Ken Thomas",
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        "prettyDate": "October 28, 2013",
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        "summary": "Republicans plan to seek answers from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the Obama administration's troubled start for its health care website to buy insurance, and are raising concerns about the privacy of information that applicants submit under the new system.",
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        "uri": "/2013/03/15/mcconnell-vows-to-repeal-obamacare/",
        "title": "McConnell vows to repeal Obamacare",
        "byline": "Ken Thomas",
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        "prettyDate": "March 15, 2013",
        "timeToRead": "1 minute",
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        "summary": "Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is vowing to repeal President Barack Obama's sweeping health care law.",
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        "uri": "/2012/12/27/white-house-urges-dockworkers-shippers-deal/",
        "title": "White House urges dockworkers, shippers deal",
        "byline": "Ken Thomas",
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        "prettyDate": "December 27, 2012",
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        "summary": "The White House is urging dockworkers and shipping companies to reach agreement \"as quickly as possible\" on a contract extension for East Coast and Gulf Coast dockworkers whose existing pact expires this week.",
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        "uri": "/2012/11/27/obama-to-appeal-to-public-on-fiscal-cliff/",
        "title": "Obama to appeal to public on fiscal cliff",
        "byline": "Ken Thomas",
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        "prettyDate": "November 27, 2012",
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        "summary": "President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases on the wealthy while extending tax cuts for families earning $250,000 or less.",
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        "uri": "/2012/10/23/obama-romney-pumped-for-dash-to-the-finish/",
        "title": "Obama, Romney pumped for dash to the finish",
        "byline": "Ken Thomas, Nancy Benac",
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        "prettyDate": "October 23, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "6 minute",
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        "summary": "Their debates now history, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday open a two-week sprint to Election Day powered by adrenaline, a boatload of campaign cash and a determination to reach Nov. 6 with no would-have, should-have regrets in their neck-and-neck fight to the finish.",
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        "uri": "/2012/09/17/romney-shifts-message/",
        "title": "Romney shifts message",
        "byline": "Kasie Hunt, Ken Thomas",
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        "prettyDate": "September 17, 2012",
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            "name": "Kasie Hunt, Ken Thomas"
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        "summary": "Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is reshaping his message from an all-economic pitch to an all-out challenge to what he argues is a failed status quo, taking a risk with barely 50 days to go in the campaign.",
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        "uri": "/2012/08/16/romney-camp-presses-medicare/",
        "title": "Romney camp presses Medicare",
        "byline": "Ken Thomas, Steve Peoples",
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        "prettyDate": "August 16, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        "summary": "Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is staying on the offensive in the increasingly heated debate over the future of Medicare, the health care program relied upon by millions of seniors.",
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        "uri": "/2012/08/13/dems-insist-romney-quietly-supports-ryans-budgets/",
        "title": "Dems insist Romney quietly supports Ryan's budgets",
        "byline": "Kasie Hunt, Ken Thomas",
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        "prettyDate": "August 13, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "6 minute",
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        "summary": "Led by President Barack Obama, Democrats claimed on Wednesday that Republican challenger Mitt Romney privately backs controversial plans to overhaul Medicare and cut trillions from social programs that his new vice presidential running mate has publicly proposed.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2012/08/01/obama-casts-romney-as-tax-proponent/",
        "title": "Obama casts Romney as tax proponent",
        "byline": "David Espo, Ken Thomas",
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        "prettyDate": "August 01, 2012",
        "timeToRead": "6 minute",
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        "summary": "President Barack Obama made his rival's personal millions a front-and-center issue in the race for the White House on Wednesday, telling a swing-state audience that Mitt Romney \"is asking you to pay more so that people like him can get a big tax cut.\"",
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