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Friday, April 26, 2013

DALLAS, TX - APRIL 25: (L-R) Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, former President George W. Bush and his wife former first lady Laura Bush attend the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center April 25, 2013 in Dallas, Texas. The Bush library, which is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University, with more than 70 million pages of paper records, 43,000 artifacts, 200 million emails and four million digital photographs, will be opened to the public on May 1, 2013. The library is the 13th presidential library in the National Archives and Records Administration system. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Bush library dedication both a look back and a prologue

Dan Balz

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Joe Davidson is chronicling the affect of the sequester according to each federal agency listed below.

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As the White House and Congress, Republicans and Democrats, trade blows over who is at fault for the looming across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester, it is federal workers who will get hit. Federal Diary columnist Joe Davidson is chronicling the affect of the sequester according to each federal agency listed below.