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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

Editor's note · Context

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

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