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On the recordJuly 31, 2013
There are a lot of politicians in Washington who love empty symbolic votes. The House has voted what, 39, 40, 41 times--I cannot keep track--to repeal Obamacare? Those votes were by and large empty, symbolic votes that had zero chance of passing.
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Ted Cruz
Republican · Texas

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Cruz criticizes repeated House votes to repeal Obamacare as ineffective.

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