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Barack Obama: the economic costs of inaction are simply too high to delay.

On the recordJuly 9, 2013
the economic costs of inaction are simply too high to delay.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Readout of the President's Meeting with Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC)

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