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Barack Obama: We will get there, and we are doing everything in our power to get our people back to work.

On the recordJuly 22, 2009
We will get there, and we are doing everything in our power to get our people back to work.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Town Hall Meeting and a Question-and-Answer Session in Shaker Heights

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