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OT: Healthcare and the Obama Emergency

Bob Dole was recently on NPR advocating for an aggressive timeline.

The former Senate leaders will try to give today's lawmakers a push by reminding them that the effort goes back to Harry Truman's presidency 60 years ago and that its prospects seem brighter today than ever. And last, that if it isn't done this year, electoral politics may block chances of passage for years to come.

"If we don't do it this year, next year's (a congressional) election year, the next year is the year before the presidential election, and then the next year is the presidential election," Dole said.

"So you're looking at five years, that's the way I calculate it, it may be off a year or two. So let's do it now. We're probably not going to get everything. It's an enormous package."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090617/pl_mcclatchy/3254601