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Rand Paul: “I think we can do better than this. And my hope is that not to defeat the bill, but to make the bill better.”

On the recordJune 21, 2017
I think we can do better than this. And my hope is that not to defeat the bill, but to make the bill better.
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky

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Rand Paul expresses his desire for improvements to the Senate health care bill.

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