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On the recordApril 13, 2011
Why do unelected bureaucrats get to write the rules? Why are the bureaucrats writing the rules? Why are you not writing the rules?
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Portman questions the authority of bureaucrats in rule-making processes.

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