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I was happy to finally see BOTH sides (lead by President Obama) engaged in a real debate about the issues during the House Republican Retreat in Baltimore this past Friday.

If you didn’t get a chance to catch the televised meeting between the GOP and the President please take a look below or read this full text of the debate.

Televised by cable news channels and C-Span today, the question-and-answer session was a vivid display of democracy.

“I think it’s a first for a sitting president to take questions, on live TV, from members of Congress of the opposing party,” the veteran CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller wrote on Twitter.

Mr. Knoller, who is the keeper of many a statistic about the White House, could come up with only one other example: “on Oct 17, 1974, Pres. Gerald Ford appeared before Congress to answer questions about the Nixon pardon.”

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