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Barack Obama: “That's why I passed laws moving people from welfare to work, cut taxes for working families and extended health care for…”

On the recordJune 18, 2008
That's why I passed laws moving people from welfare to work, cut taxes for working families and extended health care for wounded troops who'd been neglected.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama Campaign Press Release - Obama Campaign releases first general election television ad

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