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Harry Reid: “Patients' Bill of Rights. There are so many issues with which we need to deal in the Congress that the President can…”

On the recordSeptember 17, 2002
Patients' Bill of Rights. There are so many issues with which we need to deal in the Congress that the President can help us with if we were not on the one track of Iraq. It seems to me--and one can read about this in the editorial pages every day--that the President could be doing this to divert attention from these domestic issues. Has the Senator read some of those comments, I say to my friend from Illinois?
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing the impact of the Iraq focus on domestic issues during a debate on the Patients' Bill of Rights.

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