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Feb 22 2009 6:15pm EDT

44, Day 34: A Stimulus Cop

An ongoing log of the daily activities of the 44th president of the United States during his first 100 days:

-The nation's governors are in Washington for meetings this week. And that can mean only one thing: several of their biggest names hit the talk-show circuit today. The big question was how President Obama is doing on the economic front. California's Arnold Schwarzenegger was on ABC and Florida's Charlie Crist was on NBC to praise the president. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana also was on NBC while Mark Sanford of South Carolina was on Fox to give the other view, one that said the stimulus plan was so bad, they weren't going to take money from it.

-White House Transparency Watch: Obama on Monday will name an experience government investigator to oversee spending on the stimulus package. The job will go to Earl E. Devaney, a former fraud investigator and white-collar crime investigator for the Secret Service who is the Interior Department's inspector general.

Sources: Politico, MSNBC.com, FoxNews.com, and ABCNews.com.


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