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      <excerpt>...Rep. Brian Baird appeared on the Al Jazeera television network last week to discuss his House vote in support of a United Nations report that concluded Israel violated international human rights conventions in its bombing of Palestinian Gaza 10 months a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> First, some bonuses: = the 39 Democrats who voted against the House bill -- John Adler (NJ) Jason Altmire (PA) Brian Baird (WA) John Barrow (GA) John ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> It&amp;#39;s one thing for well-established lawmakers to go south on these big votes - as Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., did on health care Saturday and Rep. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...liberal website Daily Kos urged readers to contact other Democrats still undecided on the bill: Reps. Michael Arcuri (N.Y.), Brian Baird (Wash.), Melissa Bean (Ill.), F. Allen Boyd (Fla.), Chris Carney (Pa.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Marcy Kaptor (Ohio), De</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Thumbs up to Anna Neer, recipient of a Special Congressional Certificate of Appreciation from Third District Congressman Brian Baird. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Rep. Brian Baird said Friday that he would vote against the Affordable Health Care for America Act because Congress still lacks reliable estimates of how the legislation will affect premiums paid by people who already have insurance, including those on </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...&#8211; With a historic vote possible as early as today, one Washington state representative, Brian Baird, said Friday that he couldn&#8217;t support the Democratic health care bill, while another, Adam Smith, said he had yet to make up his mind.  Baird said he</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...He voted no on this healtcare reform bill. He says it was to &quot;protect medicare&quot; which seems like a bizzare explanation. Brian Baird's name jumps out. He represents a pretty liberal CD in SW Washington, mostly Vancouver. A CD that has consistently gotten</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>John Garamendi (D-CA 10) and Bill Owens (D-NY 23), and without the lone GOP vote for the bill, provided by Rep. Anh &amp;quot;Joseph&amp;quot; Cao (R-LA 02), the bill would&amp;#39;ve gone down to defeat. It passed late 11/7 by a slim 220-215 vote. ... Brian Baird ( W</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Rep. Dan Boren tops the list of Democrats voting &amp;#39;no&amp;#39; on health care HR 3962. Boren, from my home state of Oklahoma, is our only Democrat in congress. See a list Democrat congressmen voting no on HR 3962 below, along with a link to the  actual bill</excerpt>
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