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The Not-So-Big Payback

By Emily Pierce
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 14, 2003, Midnight

The Bush White House has been accused of bullying Congress before, but never have its efforts at intimidation been so blatant and so, well ... intimidating as some Republicans said they were last week when a group of House GOPers tried to convert part of President Bush’s $20 billion Iraq reconstruction request into loans.

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