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Nancy Kassebaum: I recognize it is just a sense-of-the- Senate resolution. But it is about 6 pages, and it is a fairly extensive…

On the recordApril 18, 1996
I recognize it is just a sense-of-the- Senate resolution. But it is about 6 pages, and it is a fairly extensive direction for the next Congress. While there would be certainly a great deal of support for health care coverage for pregnant women and children, we are having a hard enough time in this Congress figuring out what we want to do, let alone applying some issues and directions to the next Congress. For that reason, Mr. President, I would have to oppose.
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Nancy Kassebaum
Republican · Kansas

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Opposing a sense-of-the-Senate resolution regarding health care coverage during Senate floor debate.

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