"I'm pleased that the House has acted with the urgency necessary in passing this plan.

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For many - on either side of the aisle - that all made passing Plan B bad news for Democrats, and a 'no brainer' for the Republicans.

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Picking winners and losers this way is likely to defeat any claims of rough justice and make passing the plan that much tougher.

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Behind Romney stood the people most responsible for passing the plan, among them Senator Ted Kennedy and Salvatore DiMasi, the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

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