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Jon Tester: “We are going to look at the impacts of bureaucratic red tape on holding back economic development.”

On the recordJune 24, 2014
We are going to look at the impacts of bureaucratic red tape on holding back economic development.
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

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Jon Tester discusses the negative effects of bureaucracy on economic growth.

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