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Long Island's delegation jubilant over bill's passage
Quick ReadThe mostly Democratic Congressional delegation said the health care bill will help "average Long Islanders."
Photo credit: CNP/Ron Sachs | U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman, pictured holding up one of the monthly reports Allan Goldstein received as an investor with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, said "it really doesn't get better than this," regarding the House's recent passage of a health care reform bill. (Jan. 5, 2010)
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Long Island's mostly Democratic Congressional delegation was jubilant as the U.S. House Sunday passed a health care overhaul plan that's driven the country's political debate since President Barack Obama took office.
Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Roslyn Heights) said that in his 28 years in Congress he'd never seen Democrats so determined and filled with a sense that their mission was critical, even...
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