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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!WASHINGTON (March 19) -- As the countdown clock begins winding down today to this weekend's historic vote on health care, staffers on Capitol Hill prepare for a day that looks very much like the day before and the day before that. "Whaddaya think? Get outta here by 11?" one Hill staffer says to another as they ride an elevator in what passes for late morning here, 8:45 a.m. "I'm thinking 1 [a.m.]," the other replies. "That way 11 will feel good." Long hours, and exhaustion, are standard here. But as House Democratic leaders scramble behind closed doors to nail down the last few votes they ...
One city block in Montgomery, Ala., tells almost everything there is to know about the challenge facing Rep. Artur Davis in his bid to become the state's governor in 2010.On one corner of Dexter Avenue stands a monument to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. On another stands Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, home of the pulpit where Martin Luther King Jr. ministered for nearly six years. Casting a shadow over both is the state capitol, an enormous white Greek-revival building where Davis assumed the presidency of the Confederacy, where Gov. George Wallace took the ...
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