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On the recordJuly 7, 2003
So it is not a balanced playing field completely. We are not leaving it to the States to decide, for example, that wrongdoers of medical malpractice cases would be treated more strictly, more severely? If there is a stricter provision in the treatment of those individuals, it would be preempted by this act? Is that the way we have explained it?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the implications of a bill on state medical malpractice laws.

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