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Michael Burgess: “I just--I don't know if people recognize what an extraordinary accomplishment it was for Jaime Herrera Butler to get…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2019
I just--I don't know if people recognize what an extraordinary accomplishment it was for Jaime Herrera Butler to get that stand-alone maternal mortality bill through and signed in the last Congress.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess praises Herrera Butler's achievement in maternal mortality legislation.

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