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On the recordJuly 25, 2012
If you control 90 percent of the market and you have a welfare standard that should be available, knowledge to all consumers, why do you need the Federal Government to set a new standard?
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Pat Roberts
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the need for federal standards given market control and existing welfare standards.

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