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      <excerpt>...    Then again, Congressman Anh &quot;Joseph&quot; Cao isn't your average person. He's a first term Republican representative hailing from a very Dem-friendly district. He's also the lone Republican that said &quot;yes&quot; to the House health care reform bill. We write a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...with a similarly well-funded and highly concentrated strike right after the House vote on Nov. 7.&quot; Even Republican Rep. Anh &quot;Joseph&quot; Cao, of Louisiana, who voted for the House reform bill, will get help from the groups, Roll Call reports (Newmyer, 11/18</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, just after one of his members had jilted the leadership: U.S. Rep. Anh &#8220;Joseph&#8221; Cao, R-New Orleans, was the only GOP member to back the Democratic majority&#8217;s health-care bill. Cantor faced Loui</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Regardless of the two added (and initially unexpected) votes of New Orleans&amp;#39; Joseph Cao and the newly elected Congressman from New York&amp;#39;s Twenty-Third ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Among House Republicans, only one &#8212; freshman Rep. Anh &amp;quot;Joseph&amp;quot; Cao of Louisiana &#8212; voted for the reform bill, and no Republican senators are expected to ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> The politics of health care reform are complicated, nowhere more so than in Louisiana, where Rep. Anh &amp;quot;Joseph&amp;quot; Cao, R-New Orleans, was the only House ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Just one Republican, Rep. Anh &amp;quot;Joseph&amp;quot; Cao of Louisiana, a former Jesuit seminarian, voted for the overall bill. Contentious issues on tap for next year, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The Vietnamese-born Anh &#8220;Joseph&#8221; Cao told National Jesuit News that he uses Ignatian methods like the examination of conscience and the practices of the 30 day silent retreat. &#8220;I do that very often. Using the whole process of ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Such is the case of Congressman Anh &amp;quot;Joseph&amp;quot; Cao, representative from the 2nd Congressional district of Louisiana, in the following interview. As the only Republican to vote for the health care reform bill, Cao has made himself a ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA) is getting more support for his status as the only House Republican to support health care reform -- from the pro-Barack Obama, labor-backed group Americans United For Change.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA) is finding allies in strange places as Dem-leaning organizations thank him for being the lone GOPer to back health care reform. Americans United for Change has already launched an advertisement thanking Cao for ...</excerpt>
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