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On the recordApril 12, 2010
I have been everywhere from Marietta to Cleveland to Toledo to Defiance to Youngstown to Columbus to Dayton--all over my State. There are a lot of things I hear. Of course there is a lot of pain. There are a lot of people who are looking for work, a lot of people who believe they are about to lose their health care or they have lost their health care. I heard a lot, frankly, of gratitude that Congress moved on this health insurance bill so that now, immediately, small business people in Ohio... have a much better chance because of these tax breaks that take effect immediately to insure their employees... the number of people who came up to me in Youngstown or Cleveland or Bay Village or different places who have 22-year-old daughters or 20-year-old sons who might be home from the Army or home from college... and they do not have insurance and they cannot find a job with insurance. As a 23-year-old, it is pretty hard to find a job with decent health insurance.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio
Source
govinfo.gov
Apr 12, 2010

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The speaker addresses the impact of health care legislation on small businesses and young adults in Ohio.

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