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Mitt To Endorse Federal Mandate?

by Josh Marshall
10.10.12 | 12:06 pm

This is a small little part of that interview Romney did yesterday with The Des Moines Register. But Romney appeared to suggest that President Obama should have pushed another health care reform law which also had a federal mandate.

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