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On the recordMarch 20, 2017
Actually, of the top 10 diseases African Americans die from, African Americans die more from 8 out of the top 10. So this new bill is not going to send us in a better direction, and we don't want to keep those statistics. We want to do better, and we were doing better, especially around the area of cancer. We want to keep going in the positive direction, not the negative direction. So we don't want to see this bill passed, and we want to educate as many people as possible and encourage them to call their Congressperson and Senator.
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Robin Kelly
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 20, 2017

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