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Republican-backed Head Start bill survives by one vote, Gephardt misses tallyDemocratic presidential hopeful Dick Gephardt missed a House vote Friday on a Republican-backed bill that would overhaul the landmark Head Start education program, a measure that survived in the House by a hairbreadth margin.
The 217-216 Republican victory came after midnight Thursday and was so tenuous that Rep. John Sullivan, R-Okla., recovering from a car accident, was brought in by wheelchair. But Gephardt, the former House Minority leader, had left Thursday evening for a two-day campaign swing through South Carolina, and the Head Start vote became one of hundreds he has missed this year. This sort of thing is starting to bug me. I mean, he's already said he's retiring if he doesn't win - so why doesn't he go ahead and quit now? Of course, of the nine, only one of them stepped down to run...
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Matthew Carroll-Schmidt at 4:41 PM
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