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Ed Markey: “I was given an ironclad commitment by the other side when we were debating the financial services bill last November…”

On the recordOctober 2, 2000
I was given an ironclad commitment by the other side when we were debating the financial services bill last November that they would have hearings all this year in the Committee on Banking and Financial Services on financial services and health care privacy. They had no hearings on this issue. That side over there did not, in fact, fulfill its commitment.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Addressing unmet commitments regarding hearings on financial services and health care privacy.

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