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House OKs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs
Posted: 08.10.2010 at 5:16 PM Updated: 08.10.2010 at 5:45 PM
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is surrounded by area children after signing a $26 billion jobs bill to protect 300,000 teachers and other nonfederal government workers from election-year layoffs during an enrollment ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010.  / AP Photo
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Summoned back from summer break, the House on Tuesday pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill to protect 300,000 teachers, police and others from election-year layoffs.

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