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Heidi Alexander: “I congratulate the Senator from Nebraska on his typically commonsense, reasonable presentation about how we might take…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 2011
I congratulate the Senator from Nebraska on his typically commonsense, reasonable presentation about how we might take steps to deal with the smothering regulations that are putting a big wet blanket on job growth in this country, and the idea of a timeout to stop the avalanche of new regulations makes sense. Farm dust--the idea of regulating farm dust makes no sense. Slowing down the ability of Federal agencies to get around the regulatory process by issuing guidance, that is commonsense. These are three sensible steps that would help create an environment that would make it easier and cheaper for job creators to create private sector jobs in this country and I congratulate the Senator from Nebraska for his comments. ______
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Heidi Alexander
Labour Party
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Sep 8, 2011

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