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Trump's HHS Pick Wants To Let The CDC Research Gun Violence
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February 21, 2018
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"HHS Secretary Alex Azar today opened the door to expanding federal gun violence research, waving off concerns about congressional restrictions on studying the issue.
Azar told an Energy and Commerce subcommittee that a provision passed two decades ago limiting the CDC's work on gun violence only prevents it from taking an advocacy position — not from doing research.
"My understanding is that the rider does not in any way impede our ability to conduct our research mission," he said. "We're in the science business and the evidence-generating business, and so I will have our agency certainly working in this field, as they do across the broad spectrum of disease control and prevention."
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