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Obama and Pelosi meet about stimulus package
dailykos.com — President-elect Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi held a private meeting earlier today to... discuss the economic stimulus package that will be the focus of the 111th Congress that begins tomorrow. They did not take questions, but ... (more) Obama and Pelosi meet about stimulus package
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Obama, Pelosi to Discuss Scope of Economic Package
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... of turning it into legislation. -snip- Obama aides said the president-elect and his team will help make an all-out push to convince Americans that the government must spend almost $1 trillion to create jobs, provide cash for spending and shore up the finances of the state governments. Obama aides and congressional sources have said the package under development is likely to contain three broad categories: infrastructure investment, tax breaks and direct aid to states. Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

Obama and Pelosi to Discuss Economic Recovery Plan
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The Early Word: New Year's Day Edition
The Caucus — The turning of the calendar to 2009 brings us just 20 days away from the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, and he is heading to Washington this weekend with his family to take up temporary residence at a hotel across from the White House. He is also planning to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to talk about an economic stimulus package, which Speaker Pelosi had hoped to have ready for Mr. Obama to sign upon taking office. But as the Washington Post notes “that schedule appears increasingly likely to slip, as Republicans and conservative Democrats are raising ...

Obama, Pelosi will meet Monday to plot strategy for the stimulus
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... Today's Washington Post reports that the President-elect and the Speaker will be meeting on Monday to plan the strategy for passing the stimulus package: ...

Right Wing Democrats Plot To Join GOP Reactionaries To Put Obama In His Place Right From Day One
DownWithTyranny! — ... the stimulus package. Today's Washington Post has Obama meeting with Pelosi Monday to talk about the plans and what she can do to defang the worst of the Blue Dogs. ...

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Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — ... , and the Democratic led congress tries to push through in one week a $1-trillion dollar stimulus package that no one has had a chance to read in its entirety yet, a familiar song begins to play in my head. Welcome back, Your dreams were your ticket out. Welcome back, To that same old place that you laughed about. Well the names have all changed since you hung around, But those dreams have remained and they're turned around. Who'd have thought they'd lead ya (Who'd have thought they'd lead ya) Here where we need ya (Here where we need ya) Yeah we tease him a lot cause ...

Obama Courts Conservatives With Large Tax Cuts In Proposed Stimulus Plan
Wonk Room — ... , instead of being set for Obama’s signature on Jan. 20, which was Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) initial goal. It is important, though, that this package gets sorted out as soon as possible so that the country avoids Krugman’s “ ...

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