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Published 1/16/2009 by Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane at Wash Post In Congress
The Senate voted yesterday to release the second half of the Treasury's hugely unpopular initiative to stabilize the fragile U.S. financial system, granting President-elect Barack Obama virtually unfettered authority to spend $350 billion to revive sluggish credit markets and help millions of hom...
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