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First thoughts: Negotiating time

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire found this 2/11/2009 on firstread.msnbc.msn.com

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** Negotiating time: This is Susan Collins’, Olympia Snowe’s, and Arlen Specter’s world, and we’re all just lucky to live in it, right? With House and Senate negotiators working with the White House to reconcile the stimulus legislation -- Rahm Emanuel and Peter Orzsag were on the Hill late last night trying to hammer out a conference agreement -- the New York Times reminds us that the legislation’s fate is in the hands of three people we ...