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Published 2/3/2009 by Ceci Connolly at Wash Post In Congress
As he battles this week to save his nomination to be secretary of health and human services, one thing is certain: No one in Washington has a better-positioned network of allies in the Obama administration than Thomas A. Daschle.
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