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Barack Obama: “We have to worry about... Congress starts feeling pretty comfortable with just having the president do all this stuff.”

On the recordDecember 14, 2016
We have to worry about... Congress starts feeling pretty comfortable with just having the president do all this stuff.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Interview with Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio

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