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Jan 21, 2010 by News Gatherer
Mike Ross in the fight over health-care reform. For all they did, and didn’t, they’re the Arkansas Times’ of the Year for 2009. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Wilbur Mills was long in the thick of things, including the creation of Medicare 40 years ago, and Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Rep. J. William Fulbright’s influence in foreign affairs, especially during the Vietnam war, made him an all-embracing symbol of high-toned dissent. But that was way back, and even then it was rare for twomembers of the Arkansas congressional delegation to be so prominently engaged with the aforementioned great issue at the aforementioned time, and to be so widely and earnestly censured, as were Sen.
