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Chris Smith: If only we had done the same with Lyme disease legislation in the late 1990s; there has been a missed decade on Lyme.

On the recordJuly 16, 2012
If only we had done the same with Lyme disease legislation in the late 1990s; there has been a missed decade on Lyme.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith expresses frustration over the lack of legislative progress on Lyme disease.

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