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Feb 15, 2009 6:31 pm US/Mountain

Obama To Sign Stimulus Bill At Denver Museum

Reporting
Terry Jessup
DENVER (AP) ― President Barack Obama is coming to Colorado to sign the most important bill of his young presidency.

Obama plans to sign the newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus bill at the Denver Museum of Nature And Science in Denver on Tuesday. It will be the first time a sitting president has ever visited the museum.

The visit was previously announced as part of Obama's tour to convince Americans that the stimulus plan will get the job done. His schedule listed a visit to Phoenix on Wednesday to talk about home foreclosures.

Last week, Obama hit four states in four days to talk up the plan. Obama and his family are spending the President's Day weekend in their hometown of Chicago.

The visit to Denver Tuesday will be Obama's first as president, but he spent a great deal of time in Colorado as a candidate.

"We thought Denver would be as good a place as any to highlight some of the investments to put people back to work, particularly in clean energy jobs," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.

Gov. Bill Ritter says Denver is a perfect setting.

"This is, I think, an historic piece of legislation by anyone's estimation, and the fact that we're able to host him and do that here I think speaks volumes to this town," Ritter said.

Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president at Invesco Field at Mile-High Stadium in August, and he gave a campaign speech to what would be his largest domestic crowd of the campaign in Denver in late October. At that speech, some 100,000 people spilled out of Civic Center Park to hear Obama's address.

Obama last visited Colorado on Nov. 1, the Saturday before Election Day, where he spoke to a rally in Pueblo.

Obama went on to become the first Democrat since 1992 to win in Colorado, handily taking the state's nine electoral votes against Republican John McCain.

On Saturday Obama celebrated the newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus bill as a "major milestone on our road to recovery." The bill passed Friday.

Speaking in his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama said, "I will sign this legislation into law shortly, and we'll begin making the immediate investments necessary to put people back to work doing the work America needs done."

At the same time, he cautioned, "This historic step won't be the end of what we do to turn our economy around, but rather the beginning. The problems that led us into this crisis are deep and widespread, and our response must be equal to the task."

State Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams said Obama should've signed the stimulus package as soon as it passed last Friday night.

"Congressional Democrats kept telling us, horrible emergency, we don't even have time to let us guys read this bill, but now we have four days to put together a political event in Denver," Wadhams said.

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