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Jay Rockefeller: “there are a variety of things that have been said about this amendment, and there are a few more things that could be…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2002
there are a variety of things that have been said about this amendment, and there are a few more things that could be said, but, basically, the nature of the amendment has been laid out. We are talking about an emergency designation. We did that in the pre-last Christmas stimulus conference, of which I was a member, but it did not get anywhere. We have talked about maintenance of effort. We talked about the fact that this started out as just for Medicaid, and now it is bifurcated in two parts, both of which are good. And it is a stronger amendment.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia
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Discussing an amendment related to emergency designation and Medicaid during Senate floor debate.

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