nytimes.com - 1/6/2009
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President-elect Barack Obama took his recovery package to Capitol Hill, working to build a bipartisan coalition to endorse his plan of tax cuts and new spending. >
voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/5/2009
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
Speaker of the House Nacy Pelosi meets with
President-elect Barack Obama. (Gerald Martineau/The Washington Post) Updated 11:
38 a.m. By Paul Kane President-elect Barack Obama today kicked off his campaign to win approval of his economic stimulus plan, ...
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Obama Launches Stimulus Campaign on Hill
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Cantor Outshines Obama on Transparency
The Next Right —
... According to the New York Times, Cantor secured one of Obama's first specific policy commitments when the president-elect agreed to put "the entire contents of the legislation online in a user-friendly way to see how the money is being spent." ...
The Early Word: 111th Congress Opens
The Caucus —
... with an untested new president, keeping newly elected Democrats in conservative districts from being labeled liberal tax-and-spenders for their “yes” votes — and accomplishing all this without her top leg-breaker and backslapper, Rahm Emanuel, the new White House chief of staff. The Transition President-elect Barack Obama plans to hold meetings with his economic team today. Yesterday he met with Ms. Pelosi and other Congressional leaders to discuss an economic stimulus package, write The Times’s Jeff Zeleny and David M. Herszenhorn: The meetings were a mix of ...
Progressive Breakfast: Tax Cut Pushback
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... NYT: "At one of their meetings, Mr. Obama and Ms. Pelosi discussed a plan to push forward quickly with a bill to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, an effort that President Bush has blocked." ...
Big Trouble
Weekly Standard Blog —
... , and that it will have to be like that for a while if we're to avoid serious economic consequences. Thing is, he's already encountering mild resistance to his $775 billion proposal. And that proposal might not be big enough. ...
Daily Digest: CTO Watch -- The Rising Stock of California PhDs
techPresident —
... In congressional meetings on Obama's proposed stimulus package, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, reports the New York Times' Jeff Zeleny and David M. Herszenhorn, pushed the President-elect to "put the entire contents of the legislation online in a user-friendly way to see how the money is being spent." Obama reportedly agreed with the suggestion. The Heritage Foundation's Robert Bluey ...
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Coming Down on Tobacco —
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The new Congress plans to move aggressively against the tobacco industry by regulating cigarettes, raising sales taxes and ratifying an international antitobacco treaty. >
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