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On the recordApril 12, 2011
In response to an argument that the unfunded mandate requiring the States to expand the eligibility standards for Medicaid... you argued, as I understand it, that this was a policy argument, not a constitutional argument.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Senator Lee discusses the distinction between policy and constitutional arguments regarding Medicaid mandates.

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