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On the recordSeptember 17, 2002
I have not. The Senator is aware of the fact that we have the Patients' Bill of Rights that has gone nowhere in conference with the House and Senate, and there are issues we have tried to raise time and again--energy, for example--and all of these things have died in conference.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the lack of progress on the Patients' Bill of Rights and other issues in congressional conference.

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