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Steve Cohen: I wanted to ask you a question. Because I had said, and I was, I think, incorrect, when I suggested that the first thing…

On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
I wanted to ask you a question. Because I had said, and I was, I think, incorrect, when I suggested that the first thing the Republicans wanted to do was repeal the affordable health care bill. It's one of their first major priorities. But the first thing they did was today, and we joined with them. It was bipartisan. It was to cut 5 percent from our Members' representational allowances, a small amount of money in the big picture, of course. But the deficit was the issue that they were highlighting. What would the repeal of the Affordable Health Care Act do to the deficit? That's the big issue, because that's one of our big issues.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee
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govinfo.gov
Jan 6, 2011

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The speaker discusses the priorities of Republicans regarding the Affordable Health Care Act and its impact on the deficit.

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