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      <excerpt>...conversation on whether Sarah Palin is a viable candidate in 2012 and whether Lou Dobbs will throw his hat into the ring. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) discusses whether a conflict over public option will kill Charles Krauthammer calls out Attorney Gen</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...overhaul of the nation&#8217;s troubled health-care system. Reform will give Rhode Islanders better care for less money, said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse after a vote on the bill in the Senate. But it won&#8217;t just benefit patients, added Sen. Jack Reed, who als</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Must he also be banished from Communion? (I&amp;#39;m betting that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is really happy to be an Episcopalian right now. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s bordering on crisis,&amp;quot; Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse tells the Phoenix. &amp;quot;You can look to the Arctic north and find the traditional sea ice ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... the U.S. Senate including U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, U.S Senator Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, U.S. Senator Al Franken and others. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The public option is not the way Sheldon Whitehouse and I wrote it, or wanted to write it back in the HELP Committee in July. It&amp;#39;s compromised. It&amp;#39;s still solid and still strong. Some of the other things on the prescription drug issues ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>On Monday, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D.-RI), who in the HELP Committee helped write the public option, told Keith Olbermann on Countdown: I also think that there&amp;#39;s some room around the details of the public option between opt-in and ...</excerpt>
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