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Earl Blumenauer: “If the gentleman would yield, I just want to say that one of the areas that is most contentious deals with when people…”

On the recordApril 12, 2016
If the gentleman would yield, I just want to say that one of the areas that is most contentious deals with when people, like the gentleman that you have pictured behind you, are going to be compelled to have treatment. You have been open to being able to refine the protections to make sure--and this is something that varies across the country--that under the auspices of your bill that we have appropriate safeguards to make sure that the rights of the individual are respected but that we acknowledge the fact that, in some cases, the right for people to self-destruct is illusory.
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Earl Blumenauer
Democratic · Oregon
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Apr 12, 2016

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