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Dick Durbin: “Through the Chair, since the Senator from Louisiana has raised on the floor many times the issue of the health insurance…”

On the recordOctober 15, 2013
Through the Chair, since the Senator from Louisiana has raised on the floor many times the issue of the health insurance of Members of Congress, I would volunteer that I am under the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program, some 8 million Federal employees, including Members of Congress and their staff, are currently under the same health insurance program across the Nation. I have the same health insurance policy as the park ranger at the Lincoln home in Springfield, IL. I would ask the Senator from Louisiana: What is your health insurance policy?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 15, 2013

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