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Patty Murray: “Do you believe it would be wrong to use families' health care as a political bargaining chip?”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
Do you believe it would be wrong to use families' health care as a political bargaining chip?
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Patty Murray
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Murray questions the ethics of using health care in political negotiations.

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