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Julian Bond: “Let me suggest that while the Red Tape Reduction Act is hardly a household word, it is well worth commemorating, and it…”

On the recordApril 19, 1999
Let me suggest that while the Red Tape Reduction Act is hardly a household word, it is well worth commemorating, and it is extremely important to the small businesses in America who are oppressed by excessive Government regulation and unthinking regulation imposing unnecessary burdens on them.
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Julian Bond
Alabama

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Commemorating the third anniversary of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act.

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