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Published 11/6/2008 by Perry Bacon Jr. at Wash Post In Congress
House Democrats promised an agenda of improving the economy, ending the war in Iraq and expanding access to health care after gaining at least 18 additional seats in Tuesday's elections, ballooning the size of the party's congressional majority to its largest since 1994.
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