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Pramila Jayapal: “Ms. Norton is right: the uninsured rate in my home State of Washington got cut more than half. So we are down to not…”

On the recordMarch 22, 2017
Ms. Norton is right: the uninsured rate in my home State of Washington got cut more than half. So we are down to not quite as low as you, but 5.6, I think now, compared to over 13 percent before the Affordable Care Act. I often get to co-chair this Special Order hour with my good friend, a brilliant colleague. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from great State of Maryland (Mr. Raskin).
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Pramila Jayapal
Democratic · Washington
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Mar 22, 2017

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