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Dick Durbin: Do you consider it an unreasonable likelihood that a child seeing a tiny little magnet would swallow it?

On the recordJune 18, 2007
Do you consider it an unreasonable likelihood that a child seeing a tiny little magnet would swallow it?
Said by
Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
Source
congress.gov
Jun 18, 2007

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Senator Durbin questions the safety of small magnets for children.

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