[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 10 (Monday, March 11, 2002)]
[Pages 368-369]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on Proposed Legislation To Provide Protections Against Genetic 
Discrimination

March 6, 2002

    I applaud Senators Snowe, Frist, and Jeffords for introducing their 
bill today to prohibit discrimination in health insurance and employment 
based solely on an individual's genetic predisposition to a future 
disease. The bill provides strong protections against genetic 
discrimination that are fair, reasonable, and consistent with existing 
laws. I look forward to working with Congress in a bipartisan manner to 
pass legislation to assure

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Americans the privacy of their genetic information will be protected and 
never used to deny health coverage or jobs.

Note: The statement referred to S. 1995, the ``Genetic Information 
Nondiscrimination Act of 2002.''