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Published 1/12/2009 by Perry Bacon Jr. at Wash Post Obama Administration
President-elect Barack Obama and his team stepped up efforts yesterday to get Congress to approve spending the remaining $350 billion of the controversial $700 billion financial rescue package that was passed last year.
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