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Michael Burgess: “CHIP was created, it is true, in a Republican-controlled Congress in 1997 as a joint federal-state undertaking.”

On the recordDecember 2, 2014
CHIP was created, it is true, in a Republican-controlled Congress in 1997 as a joint federal-state undertaking.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess highlights the bipartisan origins of the CHIP program.

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