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On the recordJune 10, 2009
In a time of record debt and deficits, how can you justify the wasteful spending in this bill?
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Mike Enzi
Republican · Wyoming

Editor's note · Context

Enzi questions the justification for spending in the health care reform bill amidst national debt.

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