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Mike Lee: “There's a natural inclination in any government entity to look to the preservation of the entity. There's also an…”

On the recordMarch 7, 2017
There's a natural inclination in any government entity to look to the preservation of the entity. There's also an obligation, as these comments reveal, to serve the people, and, as he said, we need free markets.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Lee discussed the balance between government preservation and serving the public with free markets.

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