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On the recordMarch 3, 2010
So, in other words, what's happening is you have other approaches to solving some of the problems of health care, not trying to have the government take it all over but, rather, to fix various component parts. We have a Rules Committee. If you want to offer a suggestion, for instance, they prohibit you from offering it as an amendment to get an up-or-down vote on it; is that correct?
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker is discussing alternative approaches to health care reform and the limitations of the Rules Committee.

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