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The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

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Lindsey Graham
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 9
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