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Bob Bennett: “I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will…”

On the recordJune 23, 2010
I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.
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Bob Bennett
Republican · Utah

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Senator Bennett questions the effectiveness of a broad moratorium on safety.

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