Political Quotes

On the recordJanuary 23, 2018
I shudder at the thought of what the government might have done had premarket approval been a prerequisite for starting some of the technologies that brought the Internet to life for the American people.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Mike Lee warns against government overreach in regulating new technologies.

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