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Mike Lee: “If that is the case, if you have got a number of states that do not have any regulations at all and you have got other…”

On the recordApril 29, 2015
If that is the case, if you have got a number of states that do not have any regulations at all and you have got other states that do have regulations, none of which are inadequate, why not allow those states that have regulations that you have now acknowledged are adequate to remain in effect rather than being replaced by a national rule?
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Questioning the need for national regulations when some states have adequate regulations.

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