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| | Congress gains 2 new physician members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Michael Burgess, MD, of Highland Village, Texas, and Phil Gingrey, MD, of Marietta, Ga., were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives Nov. 5. |
 | | Gingrey and Burgess both hope to be appointed to committees with jurisdiction over health care legislation. |
 | | Gingrey was a "good friend of medicine" in the state Senate, where he fought for prompt payment from HMOs, stricter driving laws for teen-agers and health plan liability, and against prescribing rights for optometrists, McMullen said. |
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