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Obama ramps up pressure on GOP to avert budget cuts

WASHINGTON -- With less than two weeks before across-the-board spending cuts are to begin taking effect, President Obama is cranking up pressure on congressional Republicans to agree to a Democratic plan that would temporarily block the deep reductions.

By Kathleen Hennessey

February 19, 2013

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