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On the recordJune 13, 2013
I think I do have something as a comment that is already in the record, and when it comes to the changing the scheduling of hydrocodone from its current schedule III to schedule II of the Controlled Substance Act, that was one of the suggestions that came from my constituent who lost his daughter.
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

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Schakowsky discusses changing hydrocodone's scheduling based on a constituent's suggestion.

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