Obama back from Hawaiian vacation

— President Barack Obama has returned to Washington after a winter vacation in Hawaii that was interrupted by the “fiscal cliff” crisis.

Obama arrived at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Sunday morning after an overnight flight.

The president’s annual end-of-year visit to his native state was disrupted just after Christmas, when he was forced to return to the capital to help broker a solution on a plan to avert a combination of tax increases and spending cuts that could have sent the economy back into recession.

He returned to Hawaii on New Year’s Day.

Obama faces a full agenda in Washington.

Front Section, Pages 3 on 01/07/2013

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