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Barack Obama: We're going to have to stop talking about budget reform.

On the recordJanuary 5, 2009
We're going to have to stop talking about budget reform.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Informal Exchange with Reporters on the Economy and Budget

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