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Dick Durbin: “If the Senator from Montana will yield for a question, I would like to ask him about New York City. Isn't it a fact that…”

On the recordOctober 19, 2005
If the Senator from Montana will yield for a question, I would like to ask him about New York City. Isn't it a fact that after the 9/11 disaster, within 2 weeks we expanded Medicaid coverage under a disaster relief Medicaid assistance program so that 340,000 New Yorkers were able to start receiving Medicaid for 4 months? We spent $670 million on that assistance. We did that within 2 weeks. And now 7 weeks have passed, and this administration has not come forward with any help for Hurricane Katrina victims when it comes to Medicaid.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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