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Posted: September 1, 2009 at 4:53 a.m.
President Barack Obama, using emergency powers employed by Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton before him and citing the national unemployment rate and the budget-busting federal payroll, notified Congress he is reducing 2010 pay increases for federal workers from 2.4 percent to 2 percent.
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