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On the recordJanuary 21, 2010
I think the Speaker's comments this morning, you asked me if it was an accurate statement. I think she believes that is an accurate statement in terms of where the votes are today. I responded, as I told the gentleman, there is substantial differences. We are discussing those differences, as we have been for some period of time. Let me make another comment. The gentleman is very animated and very happy, as I would be in his position, about the results of Massachusetts, as we were very happy about the results in New York 23, where the health care bill was also at issue, as the gentleman knows, in a district that we hadn't won for 150 years just a couple months ago. And as the gentleman knows, we won that district in a district, as I said, unlike Massachusetts, that we had not won in 150 years. But let me say something. Your candidate who did win supported the Massachusetts plan, which has great similarity to the plan that he now opposes.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland
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Jan 21, 2010

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Hoyer discusses differences in health care plans and election results in Massachusetts and New York.

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