Dems claim they have votes to OK stimulus
 

Dems claim they have votes to OK stimulus
Sasha Issenberg,Lisa Wangsness, Boston Globe
Saturday, February 7, 2009

Source: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/wire.php
Article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MNFC15PCV3.DTL

(02-07) 04:00 PST Washington - --

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Senate Democrats emerged Friday night from days of negotiations to declare that they had reached a deal with at least three moderate Republicans and now have the votes to approve their own version of a huge stimulus package that President Obama says is critical to strengthening the nation's flagging economy.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., whom Obama defeated for the presidency in November, called it an "Orwellian experience" to hear Democrats refer to the deal as a bipartisan solution to the nation's economic problems. "I've been involved in a lot of bipartisan legislation around here," said McCain. "This is not bipartisan."


Senate Seeks to End Impasse, Vote on Stimulus Today (Update3)

By Brian Faler

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Senators struggled to agree how to cut the $900 billion-plus financial stimulus plan sought by President Barack Obama hours after the chamber’s top Democrat expressed confidence a plan would be ready for a vote this evening.

Senate Democrats began a closed-door meeting at 5:30 p.m. Washington time to consider a potential compromise over spending cuts.

“We wouldn’t have to have a meeting if things were resolved, so I think the best way to say it is there is a proposal that is sufficiently fleshed out that we can have a caucus and discuss it,” Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota said before he and the other Democrats convened their meeting.

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