And I recognize this choir, because I saw you guys a while back when I was here. (Applause.) So I have heard them in the past.
If you say it, because of what you saw, they'll believe you a lot more.
And what you saw very quickly because of the actions we took -- you saw house prices show a measure of stability.
Because as you saw, which, again, is part of the pattern, when there was a recognition by Republicans that this had to be done because the public insisted on it, there was a kind of slightly angry effort to have a scalp thrown in by having non-germane, irrelevant pay-fors attached to it.
Because I think what you saw over the weekend is that you heard the two Republican leaders -- Mitch McConnell and John Boehner -- start talking about how we need to work through a continuing resolution.
Ms. JACKIE SALLOUM (Director, "Slingshot Hip-Hop"): Growing up in this country as an Arab-American was pretty challenging when I was younger because, you know, everything I saw on television was really negative.
It was clear from my visit that people valued the work and saw this country in a different way because of the work that you were doing.
And that's why I am so thrilled to be here in Iowa tonight -- (applause) -- because long before most people even knew his name, you all saw what I saw.
Many good things happened as a result of that march, but today, you know, those persons that were not with the march and came because they saw an unprecedented number of black men and grabbed a microphone and wanted to make speeches, many of those persons were not with me.
And that includes, by the way, export promotion not just for large companies but also for medium-size and small companies, because one of the challenges -- I was up in New Hampshire yesterday, and you saw this terrific new company that had just been started up -- it's only got 13, 14 employees at this point.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Takes Questions from Senate Democrats
It's why you saw him throughout the campaign and since the election ended, focusing on this issue, because a storm passes and sometimes attention turns elsewhere.
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