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Elijah Cummings: “They realize that they could not -- they tried to defeat it when we got it through the House and the Senate.”

On the recordOctober 6, 2013
They realize that they could not -- they tried to defeat it when we got it through the House and the Senate.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings reflects on the Republican attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

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