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Barack Obama: Nothing more clearly signals what you value as a State than the decisions you make about where to invest.

On the recordFebruary 26, 2012
Nothing more clearly signals what you value as a State than the decisions you make about where to invest.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks to the National Governors Association

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