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On the recordJune 26, 2001
So this will, in fact, limit the protections for employees of small businesses across America so that if you go to work for a small business, you just won't have the right to specialty care, to the drugs your doctor thinks are necessary to cure your disease, the right to a specialist in a critical circumstance, access to emergency rooms--all the things we are trying to guarantee in this bill. What the Senator from Colorado does is say we are not going to provide those protections if you are one of the 40 percent who works for a small business in America. Is that what the Senator understands?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing employee protections for small business workers during a debate on healthcare legislation.

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