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Pat Roberts Warns Against Health Care Box Canyon

Season 5 • 10/14/2009

Pat Roberts expresses his concern over health care reform with a cowboy metaphor.

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Pat Roberts is concerned that health care reform is full of spending quicksand, cactus tax hikes and policy briar patches.
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