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On the recordJanuary 20, 2010
Absolutely. I believe, actually, it was the Tennessee Governor, a Democrat, who coined the term that this Senate bill and the Medicaid, the shoving of the increased Medicaid rolls and shifting that over to the State was, ``the mother of all unfunded mandates.''
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Glenn Thompson
Republican · Pennsylvania

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The speaker discusses the implications of a Senate bill related to Medicaid.

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