Obama lunches with budget hawk Ryan, deal still far off

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Obama lunches with budget hawk Ryan, deal still far off

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/house-passes-funding-bill-obama-reaches-senate-011236847--business.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/y7wYLt51rhORGBoZhkvmjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-07T222754Z_5_CBRE9251F9I00_RTROPTP_2_USA-OBAMA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. President Obama addresses a news conference at the White House in Washington" align="left" title="U.S. President Obama addresses a news conference at the White House in Washington" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama expanded his fledgling search for Republican allies on a possible deficit-reduction deal when he hosted lunch on Thursday for Paul Ryan, one of the House of Representatives' leading fiscal conservatives. Coming the day after he took Republican Senators to dinner to discuss the budget, Obama's new outreach brought optimism that two years of fiscal battles could ease up. But the White House and Republican lawmakers signaled the road to a grand bargain will still be difficult. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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