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Audio: What does your representative think of health care reform?

President Obama launched his health care‚ missive yesterday in front of the joint session of Congress. So how did our local representatives react to the speech? And what do they need to see from Health Care reform? Here is the local round-up, sans those who declined or didn’t call back. We will be updating this.

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