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Ron Wyden: “Taken together, the per-capita caps and the envisioned block grant would constitute the largest intergovernmental…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 2017
Taken together, the per-capita caps and the envisioned block grant would constitute the largest intergovernmental transfer of financial risk from the Federal Government to the States in our country's history.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden criticizes the proposed healthcare legislation's financial implications for states.

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