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Elijah Cummings: “It took a lot of chutzpah to hear my friend on the other side go down the list of the costs going up of health care…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2019
It took a lot of chutzpah to hear my friend on the other side go down the list of the costs going up of health care, deductions going up, when that is a direct result of actions that the Republican Congress took when they controlled this House.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Cummings criticizes Republicans for blaming rising healthcare costs on others despite their own actions.

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