Steve Hayward asks:
Quick, who said this:
The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of laissez-faire, unbridled competition. They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the umbrella of federal regulations.
Answer: Sen. Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978. (The staffer who did his legislative work on the idea was a young attorney named Stephen Breyer.)
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