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Debbie Dingell: “Let me observe that, first of all, the gentleman is dead wrong. I said that that particular package of reforms was not…”

On the recordNovember 17, 2005
Let me observe that, first of all, the gentleman is dead wrong. I said that that particular package of reforms was not something which was acceptable. I encouraged the Governors to reject it and I urge you to reject it. I have never supported it. But I have never said that reform of Medicaid would pass over my dead body.
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Debbie Dingell
Democratic · Michigan

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