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AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO Withholds Support From Holden In Primary Over Health Care Vote
Brian Beutler | April 1, 2010, 9:02AM
Rep. Tim Holden (D-PA)
House Democrats who weren't there for the party on the final health care vote are starting to see the consequences. Despite long enjoying the support of organized labor, Rep. Tim Holden (D-PA) will not be receiving an endorsement from the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO in his primary campaign against challenger Sheila Dow Ford.
"He's been good to us on a number of bread-and-butter issues, but this was a revolutionary, historical vote," Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Bill George told the Republican Herald in an interview yesterday. And that means they'll be withholding their vigorous door-to-door campaign.
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Democrats
Rep. Holden Says He'd Vote No On Senate Health Care Bill
Rachel Slajda | March 11, 2010, 12:33PM
Rep. Tim Holden (D-PA)
Rep. Tim Holden (D-PA) told a local newspaper yesterday that he plans to vote against the Senate health care reform bill if it comes to the House for a vote.
"I will not vote for the Senate bill," Holden told the Republican Herald. "It makes significant cuts to Medicare and Medicaid ... and the restrictions on (federal funding for) abortion are not as strong."
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