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Barack Obama: The wrong vote to take is one that would hold tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people hostage to an insistence…

On the recordJuly 24, 2012
The wrong vote to take is one that would hold tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people hostage to an insistence that millionaires and billionaires get a tax cut.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney

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