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Weekly Address: Congress Must Act Now to Stop the Sequester

Matt Compton
Matt Compton
February 23, 2013
05:35 AM EDT

President Obama urges Congress to stop the sequester -- the harmful automatic cuts that threaten thousands of jobs and affect our national security from taking effect on March 1.

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