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Jim Jordan: “I have decided, Mr. Chairman, to focus on Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius balancing my right to…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 2012
I have decided, Mr. Chairman, to focus on Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius balancing my right to the free exercise of religion with her desire to require that health insurance include free--whatever that word means--contraception.
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Jim Jordan
Republican · Ohio

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Jordan discusses the conflict between religious rights and health insurance mandates.

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