EROTIC AP HEADLINE FOR VALENTINES DAY?
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Democrats muscle huge stimulus to brink of passage
Friday February 13, 8:57 pm ET
By David Espo, AP Special Correspondent
Democrats push $787 billion stimulus to brink of passage despite wall of GOP opposition
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major victory for President Barack Obama, Democrats muscled a huge, $787 billion stimulus bill to the brink of final passage Friday night in hopes of combating the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.
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The vote in the House was 246-183 for the package of tax cuts and federal spending that Obama made the centerpiece of his plan for economic recovery.
The Senate was following suit in a roll call that was without suspense but extended into the night. That was to allow time for Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown to fly back from Ohio, where his mother died earlier in the week. His was the decisive 60th vote for the bill.