msnbc.msn.com - 11/26/2008
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Nearly 40 governors and governors-elect – including Palin – will join the President-elect in Philadelphia next Tuesday to discuss how the economic crisis is crimping states and their budgets.
online.wsj.com - 12/2/2008
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online.wsj.com —
RICK PERRY and MARK SANFORD As governors and
citizens, we've grown increasingly concerned over the past weeks...
as Washington has thrown bailout after bailout at the national economy with little to show for it. In the process, the federal government is ...
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Governors Against State Bailouts
usatoday.com - 12/2/2008
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usatoday.com —
The governors are also pressing for as much
as $136 billion worth of infrastructure projects like road...
and bridge repairs as the Democratic-controlled Congress and President-elect Barack Obama prepare economic recovery legislation that Obama hopes to ...
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Governors press for stimulus bill by Inauguration
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... In a really smart move, Obama is quickly pulling together a meeting between him and the nation's governors (and always the master of theater, he's holding it at Independence Hall in Philly). ...
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