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Mike Rounds: “States have been so entirely shut out of the process that their opposition is rarely given serious consideration.”

On the recordAugust 3, 2015
States have been so entirely shut out of the process that their opposition is rarely given serious consideration.
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Mike Rounds
Republican · South Dakota

Editor's note · Context

Rounds highlights the exclusion of States from the regulatory process.

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