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Check Marion Patch for Updates on Obama's Visit to Cedar Rapids Today

We'll be at Kirkwood Community College today, where the president will be speaking at 1 p.m.

Today President Barack Obama will make his second stop to Cedar Rapids this year.

He'll be speaking at approximately 1 p.m. at Kirkwood Community College.

A press release describes the event centering around a plan to, "build an economy that is built from the middle class out."

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This comes a day after Obama pressured Congress to extend a portion of the George W. Bush era tax cuts to only benefit households that make less than $250,000 in income.

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