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Jeff Flake: “Had everyone known it would be $534 billion, it may have caused a few other members of Congress to not get on board. And…”

On the recordJanuary 29, 2004
Had everyone known it would be $534 billion, it may have caused a few other members of Congress to not get on board. And that would have been helpful, frankly, to those of us that didn't want to see it passed.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Rep. Flake expresses concern that the underestimated cost of the Medicare Reform Bill may have influenced Congressional support.

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