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Barney Frank: “the gentleman from Texas is right. I did vote for this bill last year, because I thought it was about medical…”

On the recordJuly 28, 2005
the gentleman from Texas is right. I did vote for this bill last year, because I thought it was about medical malpractice and did not read it carefully. In fact, what happened was I made the mistake last year that the gentleman from Indiana might make this year. I believed that they would honestly talk about medical malpractice, and it did not occur to me they would try to sneak into this bill something that gave partial immunity to the drug manufacturers. So I admit that I did not read it thoroughly, but I will not when the gentleman is managing bills make that mistake again.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts
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