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Bob Goodlatte: “We must not forget that it was the lack of adequate regulation which caused the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Sago…”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2013
We must not forget that it was the lack of adequate regulation which caused the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Sago Mine disaster, the mortgage foreclosure crisis, and the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession that followed.
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Bob Goodlatte
Republican · Virginia

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Goodlatte emphasizes the consequences of insufficient regulation on major disasters.

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