Obama to address nation on partial gov't shutdown

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01-10-2013 | 09:44
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President Barack Obama who will deliver a statement on Tuesday in the White House Rose Garden at 12:25 p.m. ET (1625 GMT) told U.S. government employees that the government shutdown was "completely preventable" and that he would try to get Congress to restart operations as soon as possible.           

Obama, in a letter posted on the Energy Department website, praised federal workers for their service, noting "you do all this in a political climate that, too often in recent years, has treated you like a punching bag."                        

"This shutdown was completely preventable. It should not have happened," Obama said in the letter, pinning the blame from the shutdown on the Republican-led House of Representatives.       


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