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Brian Schatz: “I think part of what we have to do is recognize that in areas like health care and agriculture, it's a pretty much…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2017
I think part of what we have to do is recognize that in areas like health care and agriculture, it's a pretty much unalloyed good to have more data, to save lives, to make agriculture more productive, for instance.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

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Schatz emphasizes the benefits of data in health care and agriculture.

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