Republicans move to avoid government shutdown<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-renews-offer-cut-social-safety-nets-064927297--business.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/eGxHbtRlVaPp68cCwhs25g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-04T235224Z_1_CBRE9231UBN00_RTROPTP_2_USA-CABINET.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. President Barack Obama participates in his first cabinet meeting of his second term in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington" align="left" title="U.S. President Barack Obama participates in his first cabinet meeting of his second term in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans announced a plan on Monday to avoid a government shutdown later this month, seeking to calm the waters after months of budget fights that ended in a failure last week to halt damaging spending cuts. Just three days into the $85 billion of automatic "sequester" cuts, Republicans in the House of Representatives turned their attention to the next fiscal deadline: the March 27 expiration of funding for government agencies and programs. ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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