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On the recordMarch 1, 1994
I might say as an architect you might have hired the wrong individual. The ADA is such that there is reasonableness in that. What we have to do is bring that sense of reasonableness into the rest of government, because we do not have to put ourselves under such restrictive, mistrusting circumstances. I think there is a real need to evaluate the creative options that any of these issues and solutions or obstacles that we come up against might impose. Once we have a chance of seeing that we, in Congress, have to deal with the same thing that you as a small businessman, or I, as a small businessman, had to deal with when we were out in the private sector, and what all of the other Americans across the country are dealing with, I think we would all of a sudden have a willingness to be a little more reasonable and to start addressing those issues in a way that holds everyone harmless and safe and yet allows everyone also to get their lives moving along at a productive clip.
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Richard Swett
Democratic · New Hampshire

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Discussing the need for reasonableness in government regulations and their impact on small businesses.

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