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Kenny Hulshof: “Ladies and gentlemen, there has been a lot of podium pounding on the other side of the aisle today. The question is…”

On the recordJanuary 12, 2007
Ladies and gentlemen, there has been a lot of podium pounding on the other side of the aisle today. The question is this, shall the government interfere with or intervene in a prescription drug plan that is working? Now, the majority seeks through H.R. 4 to strike this nonintervention clause. First of all, is anyone having a flashback to 1993 and 1994 talking about government taking over health care? But, more importantly, my colleague from the State of California, the incoming chairman of the Health Subcommittee, and 203 of his colleagues are about to do an abrupt, en masse, about face. Because in the Congressional Record of June 28 of 2000, you had this nonintervention clause, and 204 Democrats said, we don't want to give the Secretary the ability to negotiate in roll call 356. Now, what could possibly explain this inconsistency? Could politics be at play?
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Kenny Hulshof
Missouri
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Discussing government intervention in prescription drug plans during a debate on H.R. 4.

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