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Ron Kind: “While I support the legislation and what it's trying to accomplish here, I still think, following today's debate, there…”

On the recordJune 7, 2012
While I support the legislation and what it's trying to accomplish here, I still think, following today's debate, there is going to be a lot more work that we're going to have to do in dealing with the other side of the Capitol, with the Senate, as far as coming up with acceptable pay-fors, in its mind, and also in working with this administration. {time} 1540 So hopefully we can reduce this tax burden on an important industry. But we can do it in a more reasonable and commonsense fashion so we don't jeopardize the health care access of over 350,000 Americans, which may be adversely impacted with this ``true-up'' provision, that is being used today to pay for the repeal of this revenue measure. I thank my colleague for the time I was yielded.
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Ron Kind
Wisconsin
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Jun 7, 2012

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