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On the recordMarch 9, 2004
So my colleagues understand, as we have opened 52 hospitals and clinics in Iraq, just a month earlier than the President's budget, he froze the National Institutes of Health's budget; rural health care was cut by $638 million, and $785 million the next year; a 64 percent cut from health professionals training programs. We have 33 million Americans who work full-time without health care, and we have underfunded the Children's Health Insurance Program.
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Rep. Rahm Emanuel
Illinois
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Discussing health care funding and its impact on Americans during a floor speech.

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