Ranking Member Cassidy Statement on Release of HELP Chair's Primary Care Legislation
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Issues: Health and Health Care
"This is irresponsible legislating. Republican committee members saw this text for the first time after its public release. It has no scores, provisions from outside the committee's jurisdiction, converts discretionary spending into mandatory spending, and dramatically increases federal funding in some programs by over 300 percent. None of these programs contain Hyde protections. This is partisan legislation that cannot pass the Senate. There is already reauthorization legislation that unanimously passed out of House E&C committee, has been introduced in the Senate and is endorsed by community health centers. That is the bill we should mark up next week."
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