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Fred Upton: “The system failed and people died, and it could have been prevented.”

On the recordJune 17, 2014
The system failed and people died, and it could have been prevented.
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Fred Upton
Republican · Michigan

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Upton highlights the preventable nature of the failures that led to fatalities.

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