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Charles Norwood: “It doesn't promote anybody's best interests to be so unreasonable that you put these people -- these miners out of work.…”

On the recordMay 21, 2006
It doesn't promote anybody's best interests to be so unreasonable that you put these people -- these miners out of work. That's not good for them.

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Norwood discusses the potential negative consequences of overly strict regulations on miners' jobs.

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