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Skelton says he won’t support his party’s health care reform bill

WASHINGTON | Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, a senior House Democrat and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said Wednesday that he intended to oppose his party’s health care reform bill. “At the end of the day, the American people should be able to look at this bill and say that Congress has done a good job,” he said in a statement. “This legislation does not accomplish that goal … it does not represent the right balance for the people I represent and I do not intend to support it.”