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Obey Predicts Late December Finish

Approps Train Wreck Awaits

By Steven T. Dennis and John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
Nov. 6, 2007, Midnight

It’s starting to look like this year’s appropriations train wreck won’t have a happy ending any time soon, with House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) pointing to sleigh bells in our future and no thaw in the frosty relations between top Democrats and the White House.

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