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Conflict Still Plagues Washington On Obama's Second Inauguration

By Scott Horsley

January 17, 2013

President Obama begins his second term much the way he ended his first — locked in a fiscal fight with congressional Republicans. But the president's argument that the November election would break the logjam hasn't panned out just yet.

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