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The Huffington Post:
Lieberman Stepped Up Role As Talks Ebbed — Sen. Ben Nelson spent the last two weeks either surrounded by reporters or huddled with centrist members of both parties, hashing out a deal to move the president's stimulus through the chamber. — On the way to the most critical of those meetings …
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Specter: Republicans Support Stimulus, Don't Want ‘Fingerprints’ On It — Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who broke with his party to support President Obama's stimulus package last week, said before the final vote Friday that more of his colleagues would have joined were they not afraid of the political consequences.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
PROFILES IN COURAGE.... Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) was, of course, one of only three Republican lawmakers in Congress to support the economic stimulus bill. To hear him tell it, however, some of Specter's GOP colleagues wanted to vote for the package, but didn't think they could get away with it politically.
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Kevin Duchschere / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Recount trial: Coleman dealt blow, but no knockout — In a blow to Coleman, recount trial judges ruled out most rejected absentee votes. — Dealing a blow but not a knockout to Republican Norm Coleman's hopes, the judges in the U.S. Senate election trial on Friday tossed out most of the 19 categories …
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Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
BREAKING: Court Excludes ‘Huge Number’ of Ballots in MN's U.S. Senate Election Contest — [Updated several times at bottom of article.] — A late Friday finding from the 3-judge panel presiding over the Coleman/Franken U.S. Senate election contest in Minnesota has limited the number …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NOW THAT IT'S PASSED, REPUBLICANS LIKE THE SPENDING.... As you may have heard, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) rushed back to Capitol Hill last night, giving the economic stimulus bill its 60th vote, and sending the package to the White House. The final vote on the $787 billion measure broke down exactly as expected.
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MSNBC:Congress OKs $787 billion stimulus bill
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New York Times:
Stimulus Plan Places New Limits on Wall St. Bonuses — WASHINGTON — A provision buried deep inside the $787 billion economic stimulus bill would impose restrictions on executive bonuses at financial institutions that are much tougher than those proposed 10 days ago by the Treasury Department.
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Veronique de Rugy / Reason:
Here's What $800 Billion Buys Today — The final version of the stimulus bill is ready to be voted on by the House and the Senate. — Here's the good news: The $246 million tax credit to Hollywood that made its way to the initial House bill and was removed in the Senate version didn't make it to the final bill.
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
A Smaller, Faster Stimulus Plan, but Still With a Lot of Money — On its way to becoming law, two crucial things happened to President Obama's economic recovery plan: It got smaller and faster. — Smaller in that it was cut to $787 billion from more than $800 billion in early versions in the House and Senate.
Texas Rainmaker:
Borders Bookstore in Dallas Praises Saint Obama — A reader sent me this picture taken at a Borders Bookstore in Dallas. He says the picture was taken in the Kids section. I guess Borders understands that it's never too early to indoctrinate the younguns. — Welcome to the Obamanation.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Public still sky-high on Obama ‘brand’ — With Barack Obama's victory in passing a massive stimulus package marred by days of bad press—as not a single House Republican backed the bill, his Health Czar went down in flames and his second pick for Commerce Secretary walked away …
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Justice Dept. Lawyers in Contempt for Withholding Stevens Documents — An angry federal judge held Justice Department lawyers in contempt yesterday for failing to deliver documents to former senator Ted Stevens's legal team, as he had ordered. — U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan called it …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Bipartisanship Isn't So Easy, Obama Discovers — WASHINGTON — On the day before the big vote, President Obama took a freshman Republican member of Congress aboard Air Force One to visit Illinois. Before an audience in Representative Aaron Schock's district, Mr. Obama praised him as …
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Robert / Jihad Watch:
New York: Founder and CEO of Muslim TV channel beheads wife — Founded TV network to combat negative perceptions of Muslims — Bridges TV founder and Chief Executive Muzzammil Hassan founded the TV network in 2004. According to a Reuters story at that time, “his wife came up with the idea …
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