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JOHN YOUNG: “He has the executive authority to cut through all this red tape, bureaucratic red tape. We're being held hostage down…”

On the recordJuly 5, 2010
He has the executive authority to cut through all this red tape, bureaucratic red tape. We're being held hostage down here, hostage to the oil and hostage to incompetent, cumbersome federal bureaucracy.

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John Young criticizes the federal bureaucracy and urges the President to take decisive action.

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