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1/27/2010
President Barack Obama presents Congress with his first SOTU address. He called for a new political climate of “common sense” approaches that invest in the American people without building “a mountain of debt.”
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#OTDIBH
1/27/2010
President Barack Obama presents Congress with his first SOTU address. He called for a new political climate of “common sense” approaches that invest in the American people without building “a mountain of debt.”
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At the end of his speech, Obama commented on the decision the week before in the case of Citizens United v. FEC. Causing a bit of a stir among politicians on both sides of the aisle. The closest precedent was FDR’s criticism of the court in a 1937 address to Congress.
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“With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that, I believe, will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.”
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