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‘Shocked’ members of Congress from Texas seek answers on unclaimed bodies used for research

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Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Marc Veasey , both Democrats from Texas , made the requests Wednesday in a letter to medical examiners in Dallas and Tarrant counties.

NBC News exposed failures to notify relatives of dead people whose bodies were used for medical research.

The University of North Texas Health Science Center dissected many of those bodies and leased out the parts for use by other medical schools, for-profit research companies and the Army .

The politicians also asked about compensation for those families.

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