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Debbie Dingell: “We are not doing it quick enough. This is the real world for me. I have lived with it on both sides, as you know.”

On the recordMarch 2, 2020
We are not doing it quick enough. This is the real world for me. I have lived with it on both sides, as you know.
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Debbie Dingell
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Dingell expresses frustration over the slow development of nonaddictive pain medications.

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