cnn.com - 2/2/2009
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President-elect Barack Obama says details of the stimulus package will be posted online.
washingtonindependent.com - 2/5/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
This amendment to the economic stimulus bill passed
by the House and now being considered by the
Senate, submitted by conservative icon-in-the-making Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), was breathtakingly bold. The gist , from Sen. DeMint’s Website: o ...
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Joseph Romm: Can Obama stop the nuclear bomb in the Senate stimulus plan?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... This expanded loan guarantee program is the type of unnecessary pork barrel spending that President Obama urged Congress to avoid, and it should be removed from the final bill. ...
Pork-o-rama III: You got 29 hours, people [Darleen Click]
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... to read through. Of course, any objection to the obscene pork earmarks in the bill, earmarks that Obama was “against” … “We are going to ban all earmarks, the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review.” before he was ...
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