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Chris Dodd: “As important, is the critical need to restore the Department to one whose decisions are based on the best available…”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
As important, is the critical need to restore the Department to one whose decisions are based on the best available science, not the political ideology of the moment.
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Chris Dodd
Democratic · Connecticut

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Dodd stresses the importance of science over political ideology in health decisions.

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