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David Thomas: the parade on the other side of the aisle which repeated the mantra that it was a sham bill, cruel hoax, harmful to…

On the recordJune 27, 2002
the parade on the other side of the aisle which repeated the mantra that it was a sham bill, cruel hoax, harmful to women and the disabled, in case anybody really thinks that is true, I am wondering why then when we look at the more than 90 organizations that support this bill, have names such as the Visiting Nurses Association, the Pennsylvania Women's Health Alliance, the National Spinal Cord Injury Association, the National Coalition for Women With Heart Disease, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Pennsylvania, American Parkinson's Association of Vermont, the Epilepsy Foundation of Mississippi, having someone parade to the microphone and repeat some mantra, as though it was some kind of a fixed statement that meant anything really does embarrass me, when if we look at the organizations and more that I just repeated who every day help the people that my colleagues say are not helped are for this bill. Someone is wrong, and it is not them.
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David Thomas
New York

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Defending a bill against criticism during a House floor debate.

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