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Johnny Isakson: “There is a balance, in my judgment, between reasonable regulation, reasonable compliance, reasonable government…”

On the recordMay 11, 2011
There is a balance, in my judgment, between reasonable regulation, reasonable compliance, reasonable government oversight, but when it goes too far then the unintended consequences do what we have tried to prevent in this country and that is jobs going somewhere else in the world.
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Johnny Isakson
Republican · Georgia

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Isakson warns about excessive regulation driving jobs overseas.

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