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On the recordOctober 25, 2017
Has that happened to you all, where there has been a challenge to be able to step back and say, 'We have to fix the statute because we asked them, the regulators, to do something that will be so expensive or so onerous that we are going to have to pull back the statute.'
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford questions the need for legislative adjustments due to regulatory burdens.

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