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What we're reading: Tuesday, February 26, 2013

President Obama is taking a quick trip to Newport News, Virginia today to continue the full-court press on Congress to avert the sequester.
US President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at Hyde Park Academy  in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 15 February 2013. Obama is calling for a raise to the federal minimum wage, job training and marriage for low income families on his post State of the...
US President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at Hyde Park Academy in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 15 February 2013. Obama is calling for a raise to the...

President Obama is taking a quick trip to Newport News, Virginia today to continue the full-court press on Congress to avert the sequester. Congressional Republicans are drafting a plan that gives the President more flexibility in instituting billions of dollars in cuts.

In The New York Times opinion page: David Brooks describes how he would like President Obama to move forward in a second term. Frank Bruni details the “painful consequences” of celibacy in the Catholic priesthood.

Politico’s Alex Isenstadt takes a look at the race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr. in Illinois, where primary polls close Tuesday at 7PM CT.