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Dick Durbin: “Making someone who has Alzheimer's file papers regularly…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Delivers Floor Speech Denouncing The Trump Administration's Attacks On Americans' Health Care

Published | Video Starts at 07:36

I don't believe these are cheaters and chiselers and fraud. These are people who are trying to get by and putting additional paperwork requirements on them, making it more and more difficult Making someone who has Alzheimer's file papers regularly with the government to prove they can't go to work. For goodness sakes. What does this nation come to? We can do better than that. I yield the floor. (07:36–07:43)

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Asserts that people with Alzheimer's are required to file papers regularly to prove they can't work.

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