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On the recordFebruary 10, 2014
But the notion of creating a new bureaucracy of unelected bureaucrats with no particular experience or expertise to make critical, often lifesaving determinations about issues ranging from safe chemical levels to energy standards, to health care is a frightening prospect and I think something that I would resist with tremendous resolve.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Cicilline expresses concern over creating a new bureaucracy for regulation.

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