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GOP faults Obama speech for liberalism, hostility

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President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address Tuesday to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Obama called for raising the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour and warned he'll use executive powers to get his way on issues from climate change to manufacturing if Congress doesn't act, laying out an assertive second-term agenda sure to provoke Republicans.

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Republicans charged Wednesday that President Barack Obama delivered a State of the Union address studded with tired liberal notions and campaign-style hostility and said the speech did little to ease partisan tensions over issues like gigantic budget deficits. “An opportunity to bring together the country instead became another retread of lip service and liberalism,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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