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On the recordMay 16, 2013
Is the House here this week spending millions of dollars of taxpayer money to repeal the Affordable Care Act because it actually believes that that will occur while Barack Obama is in the White House or because freshman Republicans want to score political points back home? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair does not respond to political commentary under the guise of parliamentary inquiry.
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Jared Polis
Democratic · Colorado

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