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2 New Democrats to Be Sworn In Before Health Care Vote

How "special" were the two special elections that the Democrats won on Tuesday night? So special that the winners, John Garamendi in California and Bill Owens in New York, will be sworn into their new jobs in the House of Representatives in time to cast their votes for the Democrats' health care reform bill this weekend. Unlike the newly elected governors in Virginia and New Jersey, who will take office in January, the Democrats' victories came in contests to fill the unexpired terms of two House members, so by law must be sworn in immediately. (See Jill Lawrence's great write-up HERE for the ...

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