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Barack Obama: It is fiscally irresponsible not to do health care reform.

On the recordOctober 25, 2009
It is fiscally irresponsible not to do health care reform.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Excerpts from Remarks by Christina Romer to the Center for American Progress

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