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U.S. President Barack Obama holds up a one-page mortgage application form that he proposes as he delivers remarks on the economy Feb. 1, 2012 at the James Lee Community Center in Falls Church, Virginia. Obama spoke on the mortgage principle reduction plan he had mentioned in his State of the Union address.
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