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2009/2010: Issue watch

 

Published 3/11/2009 by Mark Murray at First Read

The Employee Free Choice Act (or “card check”) is shaping up to be another 2010 issue -- before it's even debated in Congress. Those with the targets squarely on their backs: "Republican Arlen Specter (Pa.) and Democrats Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), Michael Bennet (Colo.) and Harry Reid (Nev.) will be front-and-center as the bill progresses in the coming months, and all are facing tremendous pressure from both sides of the issue as they prepare to face voters in 18 months."  (So the talking-point 2010...( read more ) (link)

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