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On the recordJanuary 18, 2011
The fact is people should want for others what they want for themselves. I don't have Federal congressional insurance--I don't have it--but nearly everybody else in this Chamber does. Yet they don't want their constituents to have it. Now that's hypocrisy.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen addresses the hypocrisy of Congress members regarding health insurance benefits.

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