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Barack Obama: I don't think oil companies should keep getting special tax breaks when they're making tens of billions in profits.

On the recordJuly 15, 2011
I don't think oil companies should keep getting special tax breaks when they're making tens of billions in profits.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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The President's Weekly Address

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