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Barack Obama: Every initiative he talked about yesterday were at a substantially smaller scale in terms of dollars than that.

On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
Every initiative he talked about yesterday were at a substantially smaller scale in terms of dollars than that.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney and Principal Deputy NSC Director Jason Furman

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