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Barack Obama: “There's no good reason why we can't govern responsibly, despite our differences, without lurching from manufactured…”

On the recordOctober 16, 2013
There's no good reason why we can't govern responsibly, despite our differences, without lurching from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks on the Continuing Appropriations Act

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