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David Schweikert: “If we legalize the technology and use it now you gotta deal…”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

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Published | Video Starts at 35:51

… you don't realize you could get rid of all these employees, you could do all this stuff with crowdsourcing this, you could revolutionize the size and to this government tomorrow. If we legalize the technology and use it now you gotta deal with the army of lobbyists, the army of people from the bureaucracies who will knife us for just actually saying that. And I'm glad the gentleman said that. And again, I don't want to take up his time, although I've got time on the back end and we're happy to bleed them together. (35:51–36:03)

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Asserts that legalizing certain technologies could face opposition from lobbyists and bureaucracies.

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