Barack Obama actually said...

Let me be more specific: One faction of one party in one House of Congress in one branch of Government shut down major parts of the Government, all because they didn't like one law.

Context

Remarks on the Federal Government Shutdown and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

09/30/2013

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