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Michael Burgess: “Putting an industry with a critical infrastructure in the position of choosing which agency's rules to violate is bad…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2011
Putting an industry with a critical infrastructure in the position of choosing which agency's rules to violate is bad public policy.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess criticizes the dilemma faced by industries regarding compliance with conflicting agency rules.

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