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Ron Wyden: “If somebody had said in the winter of 2017 that this committee would produce a 10-year reauthorization of the Children's…”

On the recordMarch 19, 2018
If somebody had said in the winter of 2017 that this committee would produce a 10-year reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program... in a polarized climate like this, in a bipartisan way, I think they would have been seen as hallucinating.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden reflects on the committee's unexpected bipartisan achievements since 2017.

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