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Tom Carper: “Mark Twain once said, "It ain't so much what people do not know that bothers me, it's what they know for sure that just…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 2017
Mark Twain once said, "It ain't so much what people do not know that bothers me, it's what they know for sure that just ain't so."
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper references Twain to highlight misconceptions in the health care debate.

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