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On the recordJuly 16, 2013
My constituents and I are tired of unelected Washington, DC bureaucrats creating new programs out of thin air that have the ability to end our way of life and the way that we make a living.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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Criticism of bureaucratic programs affecting local livelihoods.

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