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On the recordMarch 8, 2016
This is not some conversation about the meaning of the Twelfth Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, the First Amendment; it is really about the health of our people.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Boxer argues that health concerns should take precedence over constitutional debates.

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