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On the recordJune 11, 2009
The problem we have, we have this arcane scoring system in this Congress where we don't--in some sense, as we pay for healthcare reform, we don't get the score, we don't get the credit, if you will, when we do prevention healthcare and that is our problem, but that is an impediment to us that we have to work through.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Brown discusses challenges in healthcare reform funding and scoring in Congress.

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