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Obama pitches pay-as-you-go plan for Congress (AP)

President Barack Obama acknowledges members of Congress on stage in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 9, 2009, after delivering remarks on the new tax or entitlement policies for the pay-as-you-go plan. From left are, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif.. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) AP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged Congress to pay for new increases in federal benefit programs as it goes rather than sink the nation deeper into a debt, calling it a matter of public responsibility. Republicans lashed back that Obama is no voice of fiscal restraint as the deficit soars.


 

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