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From NBC's Mike ViqueiraHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi is welcoming the appointments of Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, et al, today, praising the choices as a message of confidence to the rest of the world. She told reporters at a morning photo-op that she had just gotten off the phone with Clinton and that she congratulated the senator. Pelosi was meeting with governors Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania and Jim Douglas of Vermont to discuss the impending economic stimulus package. She says...( read more ) (link)

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