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which amends the

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. On July 15, 2008, President

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vetoed the bill. On that same day the House of Representatives and the Senate voted to overturn the veto. This law contained the first revision to policy covering

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{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223165013/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.6331: , date=2014-12-23 Acts of the 110th United States Congress United States federal health legislation