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David Cay Johnston: If you ever got a cost-benefit analysis done under Glenn-Chafee, all that is consensual. If you want to do it, if you…

On the recordJuly 17, 1995
If you ever got a cost-benefit analysis done under Glenn-Chafee, all that is consensual. If you want to do it, if you feel like it, if it feels good, do it. Otherwise, do not do it because you do not have to. It is business as usual. Am I not right that it is all consensual on the lookback process under Glenn-Chafee; is that correct?
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David Cay Johnston
West Virginia

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Discussing the consensual nature of cost-benefit analysis under the Glenn-Chafee legislation.

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