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Ron Johnson: “The biggest hindrance to economic growth is overregulation.”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson on CNBC's Squawk Box

Published | Video Starts at 00:55

… go after the low hanging fruit and I think you have to focus on the number one component of a solution is economic growth. From my standpoint, the biggest problem, The biggest hindrance to economic growth is overregulation. So we order, we can overturn a bunch of these midnight regulations, other executive orders, we can use a congressional review act to repeal some of these regulations. (00:55–01:02)

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Asserts that overregulation is the primary obstacle to economic growth.

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