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On the recordJuly 9, 2012
So the analogy between what Massachusetts did and there was not this outcry and what the Federal Government may have done and there is an outcry is because of the limited enumerated powers of the Federal Government.
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Rich Neal
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Neal discusses the difference in public reaction to state versus federal health care mandates.

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