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Obama seeks power to shrink federal government

By Ben Feller

 |  The Associated Press  

  January 13, 2012

President Barack Obama will ask Congress today for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

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