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Harry Reid: I spoke yesterday to the senior Senator from New Mexico, Mr. Domenici. He is interested, as are a number of other…

On the recordMay 12, 2004
I spoke yesterday to the senior Senator from New Mexico, Mr. Domenici. He is interested, as are a number of other Senators, in moving forward on the mental health parity legislation. This may be the window that we can do that, and I say that because what we have been waiting on is a proposed amendment dealing with the scope of that matter from the distinguished chairman of the HELP Committee. I ask my friend if he has an idea when that might be ready because that is all that is holding up going to our legislation, as I understand it.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing progress on mental health parity legislation during Senate floor debate.

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