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Sheldon Whitehouse: “Industry has a long history of muddling the science and manufacturing false data and exaggerating regulatory costs.”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2015
Industry has a long history of muddling the science and manufacturing false data and exaggerating regulatory costs.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse discusses industry's history of misrepresenting regulatory costs.

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