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President Barack Obama is making his case for equal pay for women a leading election-year issue for Democrats.

Obama says in his weekly radio and Internet address that it's an embarrassment that women earn less than men even in the same professions and with the same education.

Obama issued an executive order this past week that bars federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their salaries.

Such an order is considered a way for women to become better informed about their pay.

In the Republicans' weekly address, Cathy McMorris Rodgers a congresswoman from Washington state says the economy under Obama is hurting women.

She says Republican proposals to help small businesses and increase jobs will benefit all.

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Obama address: http://www.whitehouse.gov

Republican address: http://www.youtube.com/user/HouseConference

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Obama Reiterates Call for Equal Pay for Women

Three soldiers who were gunned down last week by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood, Texas, have been remembered as courageous, noble men who died senselessly, all after returning safely from war.

The three soldiers - all sergeants who together had nine deployments to Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan - were killed on April 2 on the Army base, one of the largest in the United States.

US President Barack Obama said all three men loved the military, believed in its mission to keep the rest of the country strong and free, and lived its values of loyalty, duty and honour.

'Their passing shakes our soul. And in moments such as this, we summon once more what we've learned in these hard years of war,' Obama said.

'We reach within our wounded hearts. We lean on each other. We hold each other up, we carry on, and with God's amazing grace, we somehow bear what seems unbearable.'

The dead soldiers were Sergeant Daniel Ferguson, Staff Sergeant Carlos Lazeney-Rodriguez and Sergeant Timothy Owens.

'It was love for country that inspired these three Americans to put on the uniform and join the greatest Army that the world has ever known,' Obama said.

He told the soldiers' families that he and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, were at the base for the memorial service on behalf of the American people to honour their loved-ones and offer whatever help they needed.

'Even in your grief, even as your heart breaks, we see in you that eternal truth, love never ends, Obama said.

Sixteen other people were injured in the attack, which ended when the gunman, Army Specialist Ivan Lopez, took his own life.

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President Obama: We can do more to help the hurting
President Obama speaks at the memorial for the three soldiers killed at Fort Hood military base in Texas.

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President Obama Speaks at a Memorial Service for Victims of the Shooting at Fort Hood
President Obama says that we must honor the lives of those killed in the tragedy at Fort Hood "not in word or talk, but in deed and in truth." April 9, 2014.

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Obama homenajea vctimas de Fort Hood
Barack Obama rindi tributo este mircoles en Fort Hood a los soldados que murieron en un tiroteo la semana pasada.

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