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Stirring up a fight, Obama names consumer watchdog

January 04, 2012

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) -- Defying Republican lawmakers, President Barack Obama on Wednesday barreled by the Senate and installed a national consumer watchdog on his own, provoking GOP threats of a constitutional showdown in the courts. Setting a fierce tone in the election-year fight for middle-class voters, Obama said: "I refuse to take `no' for an answer."...

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