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Barack Obama: We weren't going to spend a year doing this, we're going to spend a week or two doing this.

On the recordFebruary 9, 2012
We weren't going to spend a year doing this, we're going to spend a week or two doing this.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks on Preventive Health Care Insurance Coverage and an Exchange With Reporters

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