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		<title>Health care reform next steps</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/02/health-care-reform-next-steps.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipartisanship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The latest news in the health care debate is that President Obama is going to hold a bipartisan summit on February 25th.  The half-day event will include Republicans and Democrats and will be televised live.
What do you think will happen?  And what do you think should happen?
Interestingly, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Anyone?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/02/snow-anyone.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/02/snow-anyone.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Orleans Saints]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/?p=2538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of us in RTV HQ (Washington, DC) we are digging out from the two feet of snow that hit us over the weekend.  Anyone who&#8217;s been to DC in the winter knows this city does not know how to deal, but in fairness, two feet is A LOT of snow.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pledge to be Counted</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/02/pledge-to-be-counted.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[census]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Census]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/?p=2528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing more sexy than the U.S. Census.  What, you don&#8217;t believe me?  The census is the thing that decides what communities get money as well as how many seats you get in Congress &#8211; all because you got counted.  The information the census collects helps to determine how more than $400 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prognosis Negative?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/02/prognosis-negative.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/02/prognosis-negative.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Newsweek has a very interesting article looking at young voters and how lack of action on health care could hurt turnout in the next election.  Take a gander &#8211; do you agree?    
~Mary

Prognosis Negative
Young people are the group most likely to be uninsured—and to support healthcare reform. If Democrats don&#8217;t deliver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the news&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/02/in-the-news.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/02/in-the-news.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gays in the Military]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/?p=2503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of interesting things going on right now:

The Senate Arms Services Committee is conducting hearings to debate the 17 year old &#8216;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217; policy banning openly gay Americans from serving in the military.

The President rolled out his fiscal year 2011 budget yesterday &#8211; now the debate begins on it. 

The first primary for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A messed up system</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/01/a-messed-up-system.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/01/a-messed-up-system.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[voter registration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[register to vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/?p=2491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a new election year and you know what that means?  Messed up voter registration systems.  It&#8217;s getting old &#8211;  it&#8217;s time once and for all to modernize the way we register to vote.  Ever gone to your polling place only to be told that you weren&#8217;t on the voter rolls? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time to Git &#8216;Er Done!</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/01/its-time-to-git-er-done.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/01/its-time-to-git-er-done.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Really, seriously &#8211; it&#8217;s time to finish health care.  As President Obama said last night in his State of the Union address, &#8220;Do not walk away from reform.  Not now. Not when we are so close. Let us find a way to come together and finish the job for the American people.&#8221;
Bottom line: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Union</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/01/state-of-the-union.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/01/state-of-the-union.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State of the Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama will be addressing the nation tonight in his first State of the Union address.  Lots to talk about &#8211; health care, the economy, terrorism &#8211; the list goes on.  Be sure to tune in at 9pm EST on any major station and hear for yourself how he&#8217;s proposing to address these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for Haiti Now</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/01/hope-for-haiti-now.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/01/hope-for-haiti-now.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haiti earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope for Haiti]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/?p=2467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight on pretty much every major TV channel the &#8216;Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief&#8217; telecast will be airing to raise money for the Haiti relief effort.  It airs tonight from 8-10pm EST.  
Confirmed performers include Madonna, Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira, and Sting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT&#8217;S NEXT FOR HEALTH CARE?</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/01/whats-next-for-health-care.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2010/01/whats-next-for-health-care.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/?p=2463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Short answer: we don&#8217;t know yet.
Longer answer: Maybe no one knows yet.  The leaders of the House and Senate have been huddling to figure out the next steps in the wake of Republican Scott Brown&#8217;s election in Massachusetts.  Then new Senator will be the Republicans 41st vote in the Senate, dropping the Democrats [...]]]></description>
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