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President Barack Obama will be signing the
newly minted $787-billion economic stimulus bill Tuesday in Denver.


      In his weekend media chat, the president calls the package a
"major milestone" on the road to recovery. He says it contains
"immediate investments" needed to put people back to work.
Although he cautions it's just "the beginning" of efforts to turn
the economy around.


      Republicans continue to fume over the bill, complaining it's
loaded with wasteful spending. The measure cleared Congress Friday
with the support of only three Republicans.


      In the GOP radio message, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski says
Democrats picked "a random dollar amount in the neighborhood of $1
trillion." Then, she says, they set out "to fill the bucket."


      Obama, who's spending the weekend in Chicago, plans to fly back
to Washington Monday. He'll travel to Denver Tuesday and visit
Phoenix Wednesday to present a plan to fight foreclosures.

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President Barack Obama will be signing the
newly minted $787-billion economic stimulus bill Tuesday in Denver.


Obama plans to sign stimulus measure Tuesday

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