Nancy Pelosi said we have to pass the bill to find out what is in it.

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Wikiquote records this as a sourced quotation of Nancy Pelosi. Its sourcing note: 9 March, 2010. Source: Having to pass a bill to know what is does is a "Grin and Bear It" cartoon punchline[http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/john-roberts-obamacare-cartoon from 1947, paraphased in a 1948 Indiana Law Journal article by then Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.Frankfurter was in turn cited in 2015's decision in "King v. Burwell", authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, which turned on a complication in the very law resulting from the bill Pelosi was above describing.[http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-114_qol1.pdf

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Wikiquote: Nancy Pelosi. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi

9 March, 2010. Source: Having to pass a bill to know what is does is a "Grin and Bear It" cartoon punchline[http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/john-roberts-obamacare-cartoon from 1947, paraphased in

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