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Brown’s election was factor in health care law

By Noah Bierman

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 28, 2012

US Senator Scott Brown was elected in 2010 with a promise to be the 41st vote against President Obama’s health care overhaul. Democrats in the Senate found a way to deny the Republican senator that opportunity, using parliamentary maneuvers to push the bill through without him. But now, as the law is under review in the Supreme Court, Brown’s previous opposition could prove to have an indirect but significant effect on whether it is overturned in its entirety.

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