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On the recordSeptember 7, 2016
Cost benefit analysis, as several of you have brought up, is to inform rather than to check the box and to justify.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford emphasizes the purpose of cost benefit analysis in regulation.

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