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'Gang of Nine'
A bipartisan group of nine senators who have been holding closed-door meetings for nine months "is nearing an agreement on the broad strokes of a health reform bill," according to sources from one of the participating Senate offices, Time Magazine reports.

The group, which calls itself the "Gang of Nine -- though its number expands and contracts depending on the meeting" -- includes Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa); Senate Finance Health Subcommittee Chair Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and ranking member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah); Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and ranking member Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.); Senate Budget Committee Chair Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and ranking member Judd Gregg (R-N.H.); and Senate Banking Committee Chair Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), according to Time.

Aides to the lawmakers declined to divulge details of a potential agreement, citing the "delicacy of the talks," Time reports. However, the "two main sticking points" have been over funding and how to introduce a public health insurance option into the private system, according to two aides (Newton-Small, Time Magazine, 3/13).

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