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On the recordSeptember 6, 2016
None of us on our side who were involved in drawing it up thought for one minute that we had created the Ten Commandments off the mountain, which haven't been changed since Moses brought them down off the mountain.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

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McDermott emphasizes the need for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

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