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Published 1/9/2009 at Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama, said on Friday that the latest grim unemployment report added urgency to the need to pass his $800 billion stimulus proposal, even as his efforts ran into difficulties in the U.S. Congress.
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