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Obama: Economic bill necessary to save jobs (AP)

 
AP - With the Senate moving toward a tenuous compromise on the White House's economic stimulus plan, President Barack Obama hammered at the urgent need to pass a bill that will jump-start the struggling economy and put people back to work. (link)

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