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Barack Obama: “Construction is up, foreclosures are down, and millions of families have come out from underwater on their mortgages.”

On the recordDecember 9, 2013
Construction is up, foreclosures are down, and millions of families have come out from underwater on their mortgages.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Statement on Senate Confirmation of Melvin L. Watt as Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency

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