politico.com - 1/7/2009
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Obama’s record-setting stimulus plan could go from draft to final passage in one week.
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Robert L. Borosage: The Price of Consensus: Obama and congressional Republicans
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... "substantial Republican votes" for the plan. Politico reports he's looking for as many as 80 votes in the Senate, requiring that more than twenty Republicans climb on board. He's not only invited congressional Republicans to offer their ideas, he is building tax breaks into his plan that Republicans say would make it easier to support. (For updated reporting on this debate over the recovery package go ...
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