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On the recordNovember 20, 2013
My point is statistically, I do not know how in the world you are ever going to know whether these things--if we are talking about 19, maybe possibly 19 based on an uncompleted study of 27 graduate students, how in the world are you going to know that costing these people this productivity and affecting American competitiveness the way that the trucking industry certainly does, how are we going to know that that is offset by lives saved with such a small potential reward?
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Tom Rice
Republican · South Carolina
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Rice questions the ability to measure the impact of trucking regulations on safety versus productivity.

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