1.0 link 166905 <![CDATA[Lieberman Stepped Up Role As Talks Ebbed]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/13/lieberman-stepped-up-role_n_166905.html Sen. Ben Nelson spent the last two weeks either surrounded by reporters or huddled with centrist members of both parties, hashing out a deal to move the president's stimulus through the chamber.

On the way to the most critical of those meetings last Friday evening, a scrum formed around him. The Democratic caucus was ready to meet White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and debate the plan Nelson and Maine Republican Susan Collins had hammered out. Nelson, a Democrat from...

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