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Statement before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, Washington, DC
Statement before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, Washington, DC
In his statement, delivered after several months of controversy over his nomination, Koop asserted that his 35-year career as pediatrician-in-chief at one of the nation's leading children's hospitals gave him the medical and administrative experience to be an effective Surgeon General, contrary to critics' contention that a surgeon devoted to the care of individual patients was not qualified to address the health needs of the nation as a whole. Koop delivered his statement before a committee chaired by his most outspoken critic in the Senate, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts.
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