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On the recordFebruary 6, 2019
This is an empty promise, the likes of which we have not heard since the famous health care sales job of 2009: If you like the plan you have, you can keep it.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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Foxx compares promises about minimum wage increases to past healthcare promises.

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