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On the recordJune 29, 2016
And it is the challenge that I have that I bring the illustration up: If you have a new employee at a university, you have a new employee at a manufacturing location, the previous employer retired, died, fired, whatever it may be; new person sits down in the chair and they ask the question, where do I go to get the rules of the road from the Federal Government?
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford discusses challenges new employees face in finding federal regulations.

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