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** FILE ** Then-Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood briefs reporters regarding the sequester on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at the White House about the sequester as he stands with emergency responders, a group of workers the White House says could be affected if state and local governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts. (Associated Press)

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Alan K. Simpson (left) and Erskine Bowles, leaders of the White House’s defunct debt commission, are asking lawmakers to cancel the sequesters and embrace a $2.4 trillion deficit-reduction plan they proposed Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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associated press White House press secretary Jay Carney circles around reporters’ complaints about being kept at bay when President Obama was in Florida.

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White House spokesman Jay Carney briefs reporters at the White House in Washington on Feb. 19, 2013. (Associated Press)

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President Obama, accompanied by first responders behind him, speaks in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House complex in Washington on Feb. 19, 2013, to urge Congress to come up with an alternative plan to avert automatic spending cuts set to kick in on March 1. (Associated Press)