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Published 1/4/2009 by Shailagh Murray and Paul Kane at Wash Post Elections
Rarely have lawmakers confronted an agenda as ambitious as the one Congress will face upon convening this week, with an incoming president pushing to stabilize an economy on the brink of long-term recession, to create universal health coverage and to overhaul federal energy policies.
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