June 27, 2018

IJ Testified Before Congress on Licensing Reform

IJ Senior Attorney Robert McNamara testified on June 21 before the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, highlighting the costs of occupational licensing and the lessons learned in IJ’s decades-long battle to defend economic liberty against overreaching government officials.

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