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Joe Barton: “You can't regulate that. You can't mandate that.”

On the recordOctober 11, 2011
You can't regulate that. You can't mandate that.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Barton argues that personal choices cannot be mandated by the government.

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