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Closing down the Senate won't help the Democrats

Threat would replay a Republican's folly

By Peter S. Canellos
April 19, 2005

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WASHINGTON -- The congressional Democrats, who have successfully slowed the Republican agenda by copying Newt Gingrich's strategy of unified opposition when Republicans were a minority in the House of Representatives, may now be goaded into replicating Gingrich's greatest folly. (Full article: 748 words)

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