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On the recordSeptember 5, 2017
If it had, we'd be carrying bat phones around with us now, and we wouldn't have the technical innovations that have occurred.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina
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Foxx argues against government regulation stifling technological innovation.

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