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Tom Coburn: “There should be written consent, but we have already seen that the Department of Health and Human Services has already…”

On the recordApril 4, 1995
There should be written consent, but we have already seen that the Department of Health and Human Services has already asked questions similar to this in one of their own surveys. So all we are saying with the Souder amendment is that they should have written consent to ask this of adolescents.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Discussing the need for written consent for surveys involving adolescents.

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