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Jim Clyburn: “We created a new prescription drug benefit program, which CBO estimates will cost $967 billion over the next 10 years.”

On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
We created a new prescription drug benefit program, which CBO estimates will cost $967 billion over the next 10 years.
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Jim Clyburn
Democratic · South Carolina

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Clyburn highlights the financial burden of the new prescription drug benefit program.

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