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On the recordMarch 8, 2017
If you voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act you would have voted to make the opioid crisis worse in this Nation.
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

DeLauro argues that repealing the ACA would worsen the opioid crisis.

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