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On the recordMarch 1, 2023
I appreciate that. And I suspect that almost everybody on this Committee would agree that while we may--we certainly have, I think, a moral obligation to make sure that people can get the health care that they need.
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Tina Smith
Democratic · Minnesota

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Stresses the moral obligation to provide necessary health care to all individuals.

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