Word: ueland
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...Reid had tried to get some kind of guarantee from Frist that Republican Senators would support only the Senate version in conference, and over the last 24 hours, Sen. John McCain worked to sign colleagues on for just such an assurance. Frist's chief of staff, Eric Ueland, tried to be reassuring. ?The Senate will defend the Senate position,? he said. But Reid wanted more than that. ?We have no safety net here,? says a top Reid aide, ?The Republicans have the President, the Senate and the House.? In negotiations that lasted all night, Reid's staff insisted...