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Ron Wyden: “It fell victim to this totally avoidable financial crunch and announced last October that it was closing, due, in large…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2016
It fell victim to this totally avoidable financial crunch and announced last October that it was closing, due, in large part, to the inability of the Congress to set politics aside and work together on a bipartisan basis to improve the law.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden blames Congress for the closure of a CO-OP due to political infighting.

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