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Rosa DeLauro: “I had a bill that would take the Medicaid coverage to a year instead of 2 months, but I could not get one Republican on…”

On the recordDecember 9, 2019
I had a bill that would take the Medicaid coverage to a year instead of 2 months, but I could not get one Republican on that bill.
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

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Frustration over lack of bipartisan support for maternal health legislation.

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