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On the recordJuly 15, 2013
I just have to tell you, it doesn't sound like a gap in the statute, it sounds like an enforcement issue.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Burgess suggests that the problem is not a legal gap but an enforcement problem.

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