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Elijah Cummings: “I don't know what my colleagues would say to that person. Say don't apply for the Affordable Health Care Act, when it is…”

On the recordApril 2, 2014
I don't know what my colleagues would say to that person. Say don't apply for the Affordable Health Care Act, when it is the law?
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Cummings questions his colleagues' stance on the Affordable Care Act amidst enrollment challenges.

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