Today's hearing will be taking a close look at the United States Preventive Services Task Force, created in 1984 as an independent, volunteer panel of 16 national experts in prevention, primary care, and evidence-based medicine and tasked with making recommendations about clinical preventive services which could work to improve the health of all Americans.
Joseph R. Pitts outlines the purpose of the Preventive Services Task Force.
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the jurisdictional grab serves only to shield catfish farmers against competition at the expense of U.S. consumers.
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