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Barack Obama: Now, is this the deal I would have preferred? No. I believe that we could have made the tough choices required on…

On the recordJuly 31, 2011
Now, is this the deal I would have preferred? No. I believe that we could have made the tough choices required on entitlement reform and tax reform right now, rather than through a special congressional committee process.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Barack Obama expresses his reservations about the debt deal.

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