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Barack Obama: “Every municipality has to make its own decisions about how to handle these issues.”

On the recordNovember 14, 2011
Every municipality has to make its own decisions about how to handle these issues.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes

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