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On the recordJune 8, 2009
if the President is going to write us a letter and say don't add to the deficit and give us a lecture about pay-go, shouldn't it apply to the healthcare reform bill, which is variously estimated between $1 to $2 trillion in new costs over the next year?
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Questioning the application of pay-go to healthcare reform costs.

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