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Barack Obama: The forms, the confusion, the potential for abuse is too great just because the forms were too complicated.

On the recordJanuary 31, 2012
The forms, the confusion, the potential for abuse is too great just because the forms were too complicated.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at the James Lee Community Center in Falls Church

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