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Elijah Cummings: “I'm so sorry, Mr. Gruber, that you said what you said, you can call it conjecture, whatever, and I'm so sorry that the…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2014
I'm so sorry, Mr. Gruber, that you said what you said, you can call it conjecture, whatever, and I'm so sorry that the mistake was made, and I do believe it was a mistake, but what it does is distracts.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings expresses regret over Gruber's comments and their distracting effect on the Affordable Care Act's benefits.

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