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On the recordFebruary 15, 2011
However, given the unprecedented nature of the health care law's individual mandate, it is important that we examine its constitutionality then though it has already been enacted.
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Lamar Smith
Republican · Texas

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Smith discusses the need to review the individual mandate's constitutionality post-enactment.

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