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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Barack Obama urged leaders of Congress’ deficit supercommittee on Friday to press hard for a bipartisan deal on slashing deficits before a Thanksgiving deadline and not to look for an end run around a key enforcement mechanism, his spokesman said Friday.
Press secretary Jay Carney said Obama spoke to Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, by phone from Air Force One. They are the two top leaders of the 17-member bipartisan panel.
Carney said Obama urged the two in separate calls to “achieve what is eminently achievable.” The committee is supposed to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in new deficit cuts over the next decade by Nov. 23.
