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On the recordJune 9, 2015
Is the President going to come out and say, 'Only my way or the highway,' one-sentence, one-page fix, or is that President of the United States going to be thinking less about digging in and defending his law as exactly written?
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Pat Ryan
Democratic · New York

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Ryan questions the President's willingness to negotiate on health care reform.

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