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That's the end of that story. But that's seven years later: Alice Harrington enters my life

Q:

While you're discussing legislation, what would you name as the major pieces of legislation that you've introduced or ...

Koch:

Sure, but not passed, because very little legislation is passed.

Q:

Yes, introduced, not whether it was passed or not.

Koch:

Sure. The major one that passed was the Federal Privacy Law. A second bill that passed this year in ‘75 was to allow single parents to adopt overseas in the same way that married couples could adopt. I got in a provision this year that would provide for some genetic testing of infants so as to to treat their blood diseases or their chromosome diseases at birth. You can do it with some. It's like the RH factor. You change the blood if you know the kid has RH. There are a couple of things you can do. And I got that legislation enacted into law, not in the original way that I had wanted it. But after I had proposed, for example, a bill that would have mandated that nine different diseases be tested in every federal hospital for every newborn child, it became clear that that was not sensible. You'd be spending millions of dollars, and the





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