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Lamar Smith: This Committee has helped expose the unprecedented and, to me, unconstitutional individual mandate, which requires every…

On the recordMay 17, 2012
This Committee has helped expose the unprecedented and, to me, unconstitutional individual mandate, which requires every American to buy health insurance.
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Lamar Smith
Republican · Texas

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Smith criticizes the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional.

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