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Joe Barton: “If you don't expand the protections of the law to 13- to 17-year-olds explicitly, how do we protect them?”

On the recordOctober 4, 2011
If you don't expand the protections of the law to 13- to 17-year-olds explicitly, how do we protect them?
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton questions the need for explicit protections for teens under the law.

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