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Ron Johnson: “What's going to drive innovation are the benefits, the…”

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

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Sen. Johnson at Commerce Subcommittee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 07:47

Dr. Yamamoto can go back and look at their research if we're collaborative and figure out another way to use that same drug, if it's safe. Those are my main points. What's going to drive innovation are the benefits, the rewards of a free market system. We know that works. And the other point is, it is the gatekeeper. It's the roadblocks that federal government policies create for those innovators, for that. For that free market capitalism. (07:47–07:52)

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