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Barack Obama: “Regardless of how this conduct was allowed to take place, the bottom line, is it was wrong.”

On the recordMay 13, 2013
Regardless of how this conduct was allowed to take place, the bottom line, is it was wrong.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

President Obama states that the conduct related to the IRS scandal was unacceptable.

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