House Democrats are enjoying a feeling of thrust on health care, despite departmentalizing within their own party, and rigid partisan battle lines. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the toastmaster of the Energy and buying Committee, told The Hill, "I'm encouraged that we're as far along as we have come and I think we're going to make it." Another senior councilman said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "has held dozens of meetings to assuage the in the matter of of liberal and centrist egalitarianism colleagues" (Bolton and Young, 10/8).

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