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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will be meeting with the nation's governors as they push Congress to avert deep federal spending cuts that begin to take effect Friday.

The state leaders are in Washington for the annual meeting of the National Governors Association. The president, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are scheduled to address them at the White House.

Obama administration officials warn of significant airport delays, deep cuts to education and furloughs for hundreds of thousands of government workers if the budget cuts go through, as widely expected.

The president did not mention the budget stalemate during a White House dinner with most of the governors Sunday night. But Obama told them, "We've got more work to do."


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    Bearman wrote...
    Really?
    February 25, 2013 4:58 am
    Obummer conceived and signed the sequester bill. Faulty recollection and the inability to make actual compromises do not allow him to take responsibility for his actions. Pathetic. He needs to stop pointing fingers at everyone except the man in the mirror.
    Politically incorrect and proud of it.
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    Steve wrote...
    Please Mr. President, "no more work"
    February 25, 2013 6:08 am
    You've done enough to single handedly ruin this Country on so many levels. It will take years and years to return this Country to financial prosperity, a dominent force in the world and to a point our Constitution is put back into use.
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