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Barack Obama: I want to make sure that we would have something to agree on that wasn't just them agreeing to agree.

On the recordDecember 17, 2009
I want to make sure that we would have something to agree on that wasn't just them agreeing to agree.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by a Senior Administration Official

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