With job creation the top issue this campaign season, and outsourcing being blamed as a big contributor to the high unemployment rate, Democrats saw the bill as an election-year winner.

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By appealing to moderates and accepting a number of compromises during debate, the two saw their bill passed by a 59-41 margin.

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One of the people who saw the VisiOn demo was a 26-year old Bill Gates.

FORBES: Net gains

Many congressmen and senators voted for what they saw as the lesser of two evils, this bill versus scheduled across-the-board tax increases.

FORBES: Elite Decadence, Economic Damage

The market consisted of two halls joined by a clock tower and an ambitious rebuilding project saw it reopen a year on from the quake, with ex-US President Bill Clinton on hand to do the honours.

BBC: Inside Haiti's Iron Market

But I don't -- we know this, Mike, that there are going to be -- there are people yesterday that got a bill for their health care and saw it go up.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

So it will be a give-and-take period not unlike what we saw last week in the debate over the patients' bill of rights.

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