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Jim Risch: It ought to be your office that is going up instead of down because obviously what I hear from businesses, small…

On the recordApril 16, 2013
It ought to be your office that is going up instead of down because obviously what I hear from businesses, small, medium, and large, is that the bureaucracy is killing them, that they are being smothered by the regulatory process.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch criticizes proposed cuts to the Office of Advocacy, citing regulatory burdens on businesses.

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