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On the recordApril 21, 2009
The bureaucracy that would come out of last year's bill was--it looked like something you would get out of the old Soviet Union.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia
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Senator Webb criticizes the proposed bureaucracy from previous legislation.

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