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On the recordFebruary 10, 2014
I would remind my Republican friends who raised the question of maybe we should make certain kinds of Federal assistance contingent on their full cooperation, a desirable goal, but in light of the Supreme Court ruling in the Affordable Care Act on Medicaid, that tactic of encouraging cooperation may, in fact, be unconstitutional.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly discusses the potential unconstitutionality of making federal assistance contingent on cooperation.

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