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Mike Lee: In response to an argument that the unfunded mandate requiring the States to expand the eligibility standards for…

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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