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    House approves health care bill: How Minnesota delegation voted

    By Cynthia Dizikes | Published Sat, Nov 7 2009 11:14 pm

    Majority Leader Steny Hoyer speaks next to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during a news conference following the House vote on health care reform on Saturday.
    REUTERS/Yuri GripasMajority Leader Steny Hoyer speaks next to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during a news conference following the House vote on health care reform on Saturday.


    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House narrowly passed historic health-care reform legislation late Saturday, clearing the way for a possible vote in the Senate before the end of the year. The vote was 220 to 215.

    Minnesota Democratic Reps. Tim Walz, Betty McCollum, Keith Ellison and Jim Oberstar voted in favor of the bill.

    Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and Minnesota Republican Reps. John Kline, Erik Paulsen and Michele Bachmann voted against it. 

    MinnPost will have additional coverage and analysis of the vote on Monday.

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    Cynthia Dizikes is MinnPost's Washington, D.C., correspondent and covers Minnesota's congressional delegation and reports on developments out of Washington that are important to Minnesota readers. She received her master's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley and has worked as an intern in the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau, reporting on a variety of topics, and as a reporter for the Anniston Star in Alabama. Her work has also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune, Congress Daily and on National Public Radio. She can be reached at cdizikes [at] minnpost [dot] com.

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