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Published 1/11/2009 by Perry Bacon Jr. at Wash Post Obama Administration
President-elect Barack Obama again pressed for Congress to move as quickly as possible on his economic stimulus plan, even as lawmakers on both sides have expressed reservations about some of Obama's ideas.
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