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Dick Durbin: “That is what the Congressional Budget Office reports. So we have these discussions on the floor--and the Senator from…”

On the recordMay 24, 2017
That is what the Congressional Budget Office reports. So we have these discussions on the floor--and the Senator from New Hampshire has been in the middle of them because of her State's experience with opioids--and both parties come together and wring their hands and say: What are we going to do about the opioid-heroin crisis in America? And we have come up with some good ideas. But here we have the Republican effort repealing the Affordable Care Act, which cuts the legs out from under all of our efforts because it takes away from families' Medicaid coverage that they are using for drug treatment, as well as coverage in their health insurance plans.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 24, 2017

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