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Eliot Engel: “Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.”

On the recordFebruary 23, 2016
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel comments on Republican governors refusing to expand Medicaid.

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