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On the recordJuly 17, 2012
I asked the cabdriver, would you stop at a pharmacy and let me pick up a rescue inhaler so I am not sitting here in the backseat of your cab suffocating.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess shares a personal experience of needing a rescue inhaler during a cab ride.

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