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Brett Guthrie: “I guess my point is, we wouldn't have had the government shutdown, believe it or not, if we would have done the…”

On the recordOctober 23, 2013
I guess my point is, we wouldn't have had the government shutdown, believe it or not, if we would have done the individual mandate delay.
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Brett Guthrie
Republican · Kentucky

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Guthrie argues that a delay in the individual mandate could have prevented the government shutdown.

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