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Associated Press - Oklahoma Delegation Split on Automaker Aid

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Date: Nov. 16, 2008
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Issues: Transportation Finance and Banking Budget, Spending and Taxes Government Budget and Spending


Associated Press - Oklahoma Delegation Split on Automaker Aid

OKLAHOMA CITY -- It appears Oklahoma's congressional delegation has mixed opinions about a proposed bailout package for financially struggling U.S. automakers.

Some of them caution that such an idea, along with a proposed second economic stimulus package, should not be forced through what figures to be a brief lame-duck session before the next Congress begins work.

The delegation's lone Democrat, Rep. Dan Boren of Muskogee, said he supports another economic stimulus package, but it appears few of his Oklahoma colleagues agree with him, at least for now.

"Throwing money at our waning economy though a second stimulus package alone will not solve anything," U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas, a Republican from Cheyenne, told The Oklahoman's Washington bureau.

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