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COVER STORY

Left Turn?

Liberals in Congress believe that 2009 could be their best year since the New Deal.

by Brian Friel

Sat. May 10, 2008


From rank-and-file freshmen to committee chairmen, the Left is forecasting big electoral wins followed by major legislative action in 2009. Some go as far to predict that the public policy changes could be the most significant since Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s.


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