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Gunshots lead to arrest
Tulare County Sheriff's Department deputies, responding to a report of gunfire Saturday night near Orange Cove, instead stopped an Orange Cove resident and arrested him on two active Fresno County warrants.
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Orange Cove inn sign vandalized
Tulare County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the reported vandalism of a business sign at an Orange Cove bed and breakfast.
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Prop. 8 opponents told to leave area near polling place
The deputy was called to calm the situation, Salazar said. "We were advised there was a problem out there.
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Orange Cove Mayor Under State Investigation
Possible
Voter
Fraud
By Itica Milanes
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 @ 07:55 p.m.
Orange Cove, CA (KFSN) --
Volunteer poll watcher Charlie Waters says he got called to the Orange Cove poll location Tuesday because other poll watchers and voters were being intimidated. Waters told Action News, "Going into the poll and either voting for them or telling them what to do."
Waters went on to say two of the men involved were the sons of Orange Cove Mayor Victor Lopez. Other poll watchers told Waters that Mayor Lopez had also been guiding voters, so Waters confronted the men. He said, "A fellow comes up on my right and says, 'Do you know who I am?' I said I don't give a rat's blank who you are. He said, 'I'm the mayor.' I said so, these people are interfering with this election."
Mayor Lopez denied doing anything inappropriate. "You couldn't tell the voter vote this way. Absolutely not." The confrontation in the polls got so heated that Fresno County Sheriff Deputies were called. Waters said, "When the sheriff came in they challenged him. Why are you here? You're intimidating my people."
Everyone was told to leave and a fraud investigator with the Secretary of State's office came in. But Mayor Lopez denied he and his sons are under state investigation. "I am not aware of any investigation. I am not concerned about any investigation, ok? Period. Underline that. Take that to the bank."
CLICK HERE for ABC-30 TEXT and VIDEO of this story ...
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More from NBC-KSEE-24 ... Fresno
The Secretary of State's office is investigating allegations that Orange Cove Mayor Victor Lopez and some associates entered voting booths and instructed people how to vote. Poll observers lodged complaints, and sheriff's deputies were eventually called to have the mayor leave the polling place. The mayor, on Wednesday, told KSEE 24 he did nothing wrong, and was merely helping people who requested aid in voting.
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ORANGE COVE City Council Election Results
Challengers W-I-N by a
LANDSIDE !!!!
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November 5, 2008 @ 09:00 a.m.
Orange Cove CA
By Eldon Thompson, Editor
Data from the County Clerk/Registrar of Voters web site.
Two precincts reporting - 100% of votes counted.
2,113 Registered Voters. 730 voted (34.5%)
RESULTS;
GILBERT GARCIA ... 429 votes (32%)
ESTHER GONZALEZ ... 407 votes (30%)
Diana Silva Guerra ... 271 votes (20%)
Joel Lizaola ... 235 votes (18%)
Editors Note ... margins similar to the above are normally referred to as a "landside". The Orange Cove community has spoken -- it is time for C-H-A-N-G-E !!!
CLICK HERE to visit the Election Results page of County web site ...
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21 More Arrests in Cutler - Dinuba - Orosi .. Tulare County Sheriff
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21 arrested in gang sweep
The second gang sweep in Cutler, Dinuba and Orosi within a week resulted in 21 arrests, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department reported.
Various law enforcement agencies made the arrests to attempt to stem gang activity in the area, officials said. The three-day sweep from Friday through Sunday resulted in arrests on charges that included possession of illegal firearms, probation violations, drug-related offenses and possession of stolen property.
Those arrested ranged in age from 15 to 38. They were being held at Tulare County Jail and the Juvenile Detention Facility.
A similar sweep last week resulted in 23 arrests.
CLICK HERE for The Fresno Bee story and Tulare County Sheriff's Contact Info
THIS STORY in the Visalia Times-Delta
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23 arrests made in gang crackdown following shootings
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Four days of gang sweeps in Cutler, Orosi and Dinuba have led to 23 arrests this week, most on suspicion of parole violation, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department reported Friday.
The sweeps, by the sheriff's department, California Highway Patrol, county probation officers and the Visalia Police Department, come after the slaying last weekend of four people in three separate shootings in Orosi.
Authorities, who believe the shootings were part of a dispute between rival gangs, said the sweeps were aimed at limiting the movement of suspected gang members.
"We're looking for people who are flashing gang colors or people with arrest warrants," said Tulare County Sheriff Bill Wittman.
Arrests included:
Monday
Ceasar Flores, 19, Orosi
Everisto Arias, 25, Orosi
Oneli Carrion, 18, Orosi
Michael Gonzalez, 26, Cutler
Candido Ibarra, 18, Orosi
Male juvenile, 17, Orosi
Male juvenile, 17, Orosi
Ismael Gonzalez, 20, Orosi
Tuesday
John Montez, 28, Cutler
Jorge Hernandez, 22, Orosi
Wednesday
Daniel Torrez, 21, Cutler
Jessie Ortega, 44, Cutler
Agustin Juarez, 33, Dinuba
Daniel Torres, 28, Cutler
Thursday
David Alvarado, 20, Dinuba
Roy Alvarado, 26, Dinuba
Javier Diaz, 27, Dinuba
Thomas Garza, 28, Dinuba
Enrique Magallon, 27, Dinuba
Jose Garcia, 19, Visalia
Valarie Infante, 33, Orosi
Jose Araujo, 40, Orosi
Hilberto Aguilar, 18, Orosi
Only four still in custody
Of the 21 adults taken into custody, however, only four were still being held in Tulare County Jail Friday, according to jail officials.
Wittman called the release of the 17 individuals a "typical" practice.
They may have posted bail or been released on their own recognizance before a scheduled arraignment, he said.
CLICK HERE to read the complete story in the Visalia Times-Delta .. and Sheriff's Dept. CONTACT Info
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Crimes rattle residents in Orosi
This memorial, including religious symbols, was present Tuesday at the site where 16-year-old Daniel Mesa was shot and killed Sunday night on Avenue 413 near Road 128 in Orosi.
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"Manuel Bursiaga, 56, a Woodlake resident whose two sons and seven grandchildren live in the Cutler-Orosi area, blamed the weekend violence on a tiny group of "malcontents." He said he's hoping things have settled down.
"This is actually a nice place, and people here have been friendly and decent for decades," Bursiaga said while visiting Orosi's McDonald's restaurant, where a Jeep sport utility vehicle driven by 18-year-old James Vincent Meza crashed after Meza was hit in the head by a gunshot from another vehicle."
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Life has yet to return to normal in the north Tulare County towns of Cutler and Orosi after six people were shot, three fatally, during a 24-hour period Saturday and Sunday.
Even sports events are being affected.
Orosi High School's varsity football team was to have hosted Strathmore in an East Sequoia League matchup Friday night, but the game has been moved to Strathmore. Kickoff will be at 4 p.m. rather than the usual time of 7:30 p.m., according to the Central Section of the California Interscholastic Federation.
Orosi and Strathmore administrators and athletic officials could not be reached Tuesday to comment on whether the changes have anything to do with the weekend violence.
Cutler-Orosi Unified School District attendance was down 50 percent on Monday, officials said. But Superintendent Carolyn Kehril said the absence rate Tuesday was just 4 percent.
More shootings on Sunday
The following evening, 16-year-old Daniel Mesa was shot and killed about a quarter-mile south of the earlier shooting, and a 13-year-old boy from Cutler also was shot but survived, Tulare County Sheriff Bill Wittman reported Monday. A single shooter was involved in both shootings, Wittman reported.
CLICK HERE to read the full story from the Visalia Times-Delta
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Orosi shootings leave two dead
A victim of a shooting in Orosi arrives at Kaweah Delta Medical Center's emergency room Sunday.
(GERALD CARROLL photo)
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Staff reports * October 27, 2008
OROSI ... Two people were killed and three others wounded in a series of three Orosi shootings early Sunday evening.
The incidents occurred one after the other between 6 and 7 p.m., according to Tulare County Sheriff's Department officials. Killed at separate locations were a woman and a male juvenile, both unidentified, officials said.
Two injured adults, a man and a woman, were taken to Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia and a male juvenile was taken by helicopter to Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, Sgt. Chris Douglass said.
According to Douglass:
At 6:21 p.m., officials got word that two male juveniles were the victims of a walk-up shooting at Avenue 413 and Road 128. A body remained there, on the pavement in the town's business district, late Sunday. The second juvenile went to the Fresno hospital.
At 6:42, officials learned that two women had been shot, then transported to Second Avenue and Orosi Drive. One of the women died. The location of the shooting was unknown late Sunday.
Minutes later, officials learned that an adult male had been shot in the 13700 block of Avenue 408.
The surviving victims' conditions were unavailable late Sunday.
Members of the sheriff's department's anti-gang task force responded to the incidents, and deputies confirmed that they're looking into the possibility that the shootings were gang-related. Officials also are investigating a possible connection with an assault in Sultana, about two miles west of Orosi, a deputy said.
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CLICK HERE to read the complete story in the Visalia Times-Delta and reader raction
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Campaign signs vandalized ... $500 REWARD OFFERED
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Gonzalez/Garcia to offer a reward
By David Witte
Editor
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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Members of the Committee to Elect Esther Gonzalez and Gilbert Garcia filed a report with the Fresno County Sheriff's office regarding vandalism of campaign signs.
The vandalism occurred Friday night or Saturday morning, and involved the beating of several signs and the removal of the American flags that flew on top of the 6-foot-by-4-foot signs.
"The one on Park and Center, this is the third time they've broken the flags off of that one," said Ryan Hill.
The campaign has five of the large signs, and the one across from AC Market received the brunt of the vandalism, with two tears on the side, one each going through the pictures of Gonzalez and Garcia.
"One through my picture and one through Esther's," said Garcia. "It looks like they decapitated my head."
The committee said they will offer a reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. As of Monday, no amount had been decided upon, though the figure $500 had been discussed.
Garcia, though upset, still had a positive view of the situation.
"It did make me angry, but I guess... Maybe they're getting pressure, maybe we're doing good in the election," he said. "How funny that they only damaged our signs. Their signs weren't damaged at all."
CLICK HERE to read the story in the Orange Cove and Mountain Times
RESOURCES;
$100 Reward Offered by Private Citizen
CONTACT info for the Sheriff's Department
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Local: Candidates in Orange Cove set priorities
Beefing up public safety and bringing more businesses and jobs to the community are the top priorities of candidates for the Orange Cove City Council on the Nov.
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BAD ECONOMIC NEWZ: Dow skids more than 600 as retail sales plunge
A board on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the closing number for the Dow Jones Industrial Average Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. Despair over the economy sent Wall Street plunging again Wednesday, propelling the Dow Jones industrials down 733 points to their second-largest point loss ever.
Photo - Ruchard Drew
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Investors agonizing over a faltering economy sent the stock market plunging all over again Wednesday after two disheartening reports convinced Wall Street that a recession, if not already here, is inevitable.
The market's despair propelled the Dow Jones industrials down 733 points to their second-largest point loss ever, and the major indexes all lost at least 7 percent.
The slide meant that the Dow, which fell 76 points on Tuesday, has given back all but 127 points of its record 936-point gain of Monday, which came on optimism about the banking system in response to the government's plans to invest up to $250 billion in financial institutions.
Wednesday's sell-off began after the government's report that retail sales plunged in September by 1.2 percent - almost double the 0.7 percent analysts expected - made it clear that consumers are reluctant to spend amid a shaky economy and a punishing stock market. The Commerce Department report was sobering because consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity. The reading came as Wall Street was refocusing its attention on the faltering economy following stepped up government efforts to revive the stagnant lending markets.
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MORE ECONOMIC NEWZ ...
CLICK HERE - NASDQ finishes day DOWN $150.68 .. 8.47% .. Close $1628.33
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Officers seize pot worth $39 million in Orosi
Six people arrested in Orosi pot-operation bust on Saturday
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October 13, 2008
Narcotics officers made six arrests Saturday following the discovery of 9,300 marijuana plants and seizure of 500 pounds of processed marijuana at an avocado orchard northeast of Orosi.
The 30-acre orchard is located in the 14800 block of Johnson Drive.
Tulare County Sheriff's Department personnel discovered a large-scale processing station that included drying fans, heaters and ventilation equipment, deputies reported.
Equipment designed to grow marijuana indoors was also discovered at the Orosi site. Southern California Edison officials said power was being diverted illegally to the site.
The seized plants' street value was estimated at $37.3 million and the dried marijuana was worth $2 million. All was destroyed, officials said.
The following were arrested on suspicion of marijuana cultivation:
Felipe Diego Ramos, 24, of Orosi.
Jose Sanchez Gutierrez, 26, of Orosi.
Andre Felipe Diego, 21, of Orosi.
Esteban Zacharias Montejo, 29, of Orosi.
Perry Lee Willmore, 57, of Temecula.
Gaeney Marie Willmore, 55, of Temecula.
A suspected production site in Temecula also was searched. It was not disclosed what was discovered there.
CLICK HERE Visalia Times-Delta
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Domestic violence and the hurting economy
A single key remains in a storage locker as rooms fill up at the center Thursday.
Photo - DARRELL WONG/THE FRESNO BEE
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As bills begin to stack up at home, more shelters in the Valley for abused women are filling up.
By Barbara Anderson / The Fresno Bee / 10/11/08
Shelters for abused women are full and domestic-violence hotlines are busy as the bad economy takes a devastating toll on families in the San Joaquin Valley.
Some of the victims are coming from a demographic group the shelters don't ordinarily see: middle- to upper-income women whose livelihoods have been shattered by plunging stock prices and ballooning home-mortgage payments.
The link between the economy and domestic violence is clear, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said, and she expects violence to increase as more families struggle to pay their bills.
"As a former domestic-violence investigator and sergeant of the domestic-violence team, I can tell you money was one of the common arguments that would lead to violence in the home," Mims said.
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RESOURCES;
Marjaree Mason Center, Fresno
Reedley House, Reedley
Dinuba area help available - Domestic Violence, Tulare County District Attorney
Domestic Violence Victim's Services, Tulare County, Family Services
Community Action Partnership, Madera
Fresno Police Department Domestic Violence Unit
Family Services, Visalia
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BREAKING NEWZ - US stocks extend huge losses over credit concerns
Trader Jason Harper works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday Oct. 10, 2008.
photo .... Richard Drew
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Wall Street extended its devastating losses Friday, but prices swung sharply as investors scooped up some shares decimated by more than a week of intense and panicked selling. The Dow Jones industrials, down nearly 700 points in the opening minutes of trading, recovered to an advance of more than 100 before turning sharply lower again, and the other major indexes fluctuated widely as well.
Frozen credit markets and a loss of confidence in the world's financial system have caused the Dow to drop 21 percent in just 10 trading days. The blue chip index tumbled 678 points Thursday, and is heading to its worst weekly point drop, and one of its biggest weekly percentage drops, since being created 112 years ago.
Friday's gyrations were likely exacerbated by the computer-driven "buy" orders that kicked in when prices fell far enough to make some stocks - including the pummeled financial stocks - look like attractive bets. But that buying didn't necessarily reflect an easing of the market's deep despair, and so the heavy selling generally continued.
CLICK HERE to read more of this story in The Fresno Bee
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CLICK HERE for LIVE STOCK MARKET Updates - The Sacramento Bee
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Drug arrests made in Orosi, Dinuba
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October 8, 2008
Separate month-long investigations led to two drug-related arrests Monday, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department reported.
In Orosi, Roger Craig Jones, 40, was arrested on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine for sale and driving on a suspended driver license.
He is on parole from another state.
Detectives seized crystal methamphetamine worth an estimated street value of $1,000. The seizure took place at Jones' residence in the 12900 block of Avenue 419.
Detectives also found a digital weight scale and a police scanner, officials said.
In Dinuba, Robert Sahagun, 22, was arrested on suspicion of possession, sales and transportation of methamphetamine.
Initially he was arrested on suspicion of an active misdemeanor warrant during a traffic stop as he left his apartment in the 300 block of South L Street, deputies said.
In Sahagun's vehicle detectives found four individually wrapped bindles of methamphetamine that added up to about one gram, officials reported.
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BREAKING NEWZ - Taxpayer's Bailout Money Mis-used
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, holds up the Wall Street Journal as he questions former CEO's of AIG Robert Willumstad and Martin Sullivan before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008, as lawmakers probe the role of insurance giant AIG in the financial meltdown requiring government bailout.
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Insurance giant AIG's role in market crisis probed
By ANDREW TAYLOR ||| 10/07/08
Less than a week after the federal government had to bail out American International Group Inc., the company sent executives on a $440,000 retreat to a posh California resort, lawmakers investigating the company's meltdown said Tuesday.
The tab included $23,380 worth of spa treatments for AIG employees at the coastal St. Regis resort south of Los Angeles even as the company tapped into an $85 billion loan from the government it needed to stave off bankruptcy.
The retreat didn't include anyone from the financial products division that nearly drove AIG under, but lawmakers were still enraged over thousands of dollars spent on catered banquets, golf outings and visits to the resort's spa and salon for executives of AIG's main U.S. life insurance subsidiary.
"Average Americans are suffering economically. They're losing their jobs, their homes and their health insurance," House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., scolded. "Yet less than one week after the taxpayers rescued AIG, company executives could be found wining and dining at one of the most exclusive resorts in the nation."
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Dow Jones ends day below $10,000 (composite)
Trader John Santiago leans on a phone post on the New York Stock Exchange floor, Monday Oct. 6, 2008. Wall Street suffered through another extraordinary and traumatic session Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials plunging as much as 800 points _ their largest one-day point drop _ before recovering to close with a loss of 370.
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Fear about prolonged credit crunch sparks global selloff
The Dow Jones industrials fell as low as 800 points, setting a new record for a one-day point drop.
October 6, 2008 @ 2:00 p.m. (PDT)
NEW YORK - Wall Street suffered through another extraordinary and traumatic session Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials plunging as much as 800 points - their largest one-day point drop - before recovering to close with a loss of 370. The catalyst for the selling, which also took the Dow below 10,000 for the first time in four years, was investors' growing despair that the spreading credit crisis will take a heavy toll around the world.
Investors have come to the realization that the Bush administration's $700 billion rescue plan and steps taken by other governments won't work quickly to unfreeze the credit markets.
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CLICK HERE for more of this Associated Press story ...
CLICK HERE for The Fresno Bee ... Dow finishes below 10,000 for first time since '04
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OROSI & CUTLER - New political club forms
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Saturday, October 4, 2008
New political club forms
There's a new political club in the central San Joaquin Valley, this one focusing on the northern reaches of Tulare County. The Northern Tulare County Democratic Club's main objective is to build Democratic membership and leadership in areas in and around the towns of Cutler and Orosi.
One of the new group's complaints is the lack of services and infrastructure in northern Tulare County. There are dirt roads with no sidewalks or good street lighting in the area, the group says, and locally generated tax money heads south to Visalia, but very little is returned.
Leading up to the Nov. 4 election, the group will meet each Sunday at noon at 41675 Road 130 in Orosi. Details: CLICK HERE for See Phone No..
-- John Ellis - The Fresno Bee - POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
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BREAKING NEWZ - U.S. House Approves $700B Financial Rescue Package
Speaker Nancy Pelosi signs the House of Representatives legislation ...
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President Bush Signs Bill Into Law Same Afternoon
Congress passed complex and highly criticized legislation Friday, authorizing $700 billion in government money to shore up the nation's stressed financial industry.
In a dramatic reversal, the House today approved by a comfortable margin a $700 billion financial rescue package that will bring the greatest intervention of the federal government into the private marketplace since the Great Depression, attempting to prevent the economy from sliding into a deep recession.
Just four days after the bill's initial demise sparked a free fall on Wall Street, the House approved the legislation 263-171. At 1:23 p.m., the measure cleared a majority of votes, and the chamber broke out in applause.
After initially rejecting the bill by a 2-to-1 margin, House Republicans mustered 91 votes in favor of it on the second try, with 172 Democrats supporting its passage. One hundred eight Republicans and 63 Democrats voted against the bill. The Senate approved the package Wednesday.
"It is a difficult vote. It is a vote we must win for the American people," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said, closing out 2 1/2 hours of debate.
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CLICK HERE for The Washington Post story
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