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Barack Obama: “The biggest problem that we are facing right now has to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power in the…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2014
The biggest problem that we are facing right now has to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power in the Executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that is what I intend to reverse when I am President of the United States of America.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama criticized executive overreach in 2008, promising to reverse it as president.

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