Stimulus Plan Could Shape Course Of Barack Obama Quot Presidency

President-elect Barack Obama call for the rapid adoption of a massive spending plan shock the economy will be a first test of two big promises: that we work in a bipartisan way with a skeptical Republican Party, and that he is scouring the Federal budget waste projects. Job losses and a deepening recession demand a quick infusion of money, they say. Even conservative Republicans on Capitol Hill predict that, eventually, a major stimulus package will pass.