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John Boehner: “How you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives, how does that stimulate the economy?”

On the recordJanuary 25, 2009
How you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives, how does that stimulate the economy?

Editor's note · Context

House Minority Leader Boehner questions the economic rationale behind funding for contraceptives in the stimulus plan.

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