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      <excerpt>...don't want to roll the dice on this,&quot; he said.  Pelosi cleared one roadblock on her side of the aisle by persuading Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) to withdraw his demand for a vote on a controversial amendment that would create a single-payer system in wh</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Americans.The situation remained extremely fluid Friday, as lawmakers continued to switch sides in a process that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D., N.Y.) likened to a &quot;Whac-a-Mole&quot; game. In addition to the abortion issue, others were concerned that illegal immig</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Here&#8217;s Waxman&#8217;s statement on the decision: Rep. Anthony Weiner has been one of the most tireless and effective advocates for health care reform. His decision not to offer h</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...putting the whole bill online for 72 hours,&quot; he added. In a statement released Friday, Pelosi, D-Calif., did thank Rep. Anthony Weiner for withholding his amendment for a single-payer approach to the legislation.&#160; &quot;His decision not to offer a single pa</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...plan if they like it. She also said that she had yet to decide whether to allow a vote on a separate amendment from Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) that would replace the entire health care bill with a single-payer system. &quot;We are probably going to be addr</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...if one of the trips they did to New Jersey, whether they went to New York instead, it might have helped,&quot; said U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, a Democrat who had planned to run for mayor but dropped out because Bloomberg seemed unbeatable.  The president's te</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...trouble for his campaign.  One supporter of Thompson whogroused publicly about Obama's general absence from the contest- Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn, Queens) - got the sharp end of the stick.  Weiner mused to the Politico.com Web site that maybe one</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...closer during the campaign?  &quot;A lot of Democratic donors who sat on their wallets are kicking themselves tonight,&quot; said Rep. Anthony Weiner, who bowed out of the race for mayor early on, but did what he could for Thompson down the stretch.  One senior c</excerpt>
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