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With An Assist From The AP, A GOP Talking Point Is Born

07.16.09 -- 9:25AM

The AP keeps reporting that the cost of the House health care bill will be $1.5 trillion -- even though the neutral Congressional Budget Office pegs it at 2/3 that much: $1 trillion.

Watch as Newt Gingrich and others pick up the AP's higher price tag and run with it.

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