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Obama in DC, day one: Senate disputes, economic rescue - and kids off to school

 

Published 1/5/2009 at World News from Times Online

Barack Obama waved his girls off to school and began his first day of work in Washington today with wrangling, delays and the Blagojevich scandal hanging over Capitol Hill. (link)

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