President Obama says the independent, nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has concluded the current Senate Finance Committee bill would make health coverage affordable for millions of Americans who don't have it today.
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As you gaze out at parliament from the officeof the finance minister, the outer glass pocked by a bullet-hole from some forgotten demo in Syntagma Square below, the grim prospect is of a hard-left government vying against hard-right law-enforcement.
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats will not get the top job, but they will get several senior ministries, including the Foreign Office and the ministries ofFinance and Justice.