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On the recordMarch 22, 2017
It is pretty amazing to me that a bunch of us in this body who get government-supported insurance, whose taxpayers subsidize our health insurance, that people in this body and the other house want to take away insurance for a whole lot of low-income, working people.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Brown highlights hypocrisy in Congress regarding health insurance for low-income individuals.

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