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Barney Frank: “We were stopping -- that debate got interrupted by the right-wing attacks, not the mainstream conservatives, on the…”

On the recordSeptember 16, 2009
We were stopping -- that debate got interrupted by the right-wing attacks, not the mainstream conservatives, on the president and the health care plan.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Barney Frank discusses interruptions in the health care debate due to political attacks.

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