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On the recordMarch 21, 2012
I found it absurd some of the suggestions that the President or the White House...was running away from or not interested in talking about the Affordable Care Act.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney

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