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Economic stimulus package could reach $1.2T

WASHINGTON - With each new piece of bad news this past week, estimates of the size and cost of an economic stimulus package advocated by President-elect Barack Obama have gotten bigger and more expensive, rising to as much as $1.2 trillion in federal spending.

"We've got to make sure that the economic stimulus plan is large enough to get the economy moving," Obama said yesterday on NBC's...

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