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GOP DEBATE FACT CHECK: Regulations not a huge jobs killer

By CALVIN WOODWARD and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER

Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Is regulation strangling the American entrepreneur? Several Republican presidential candidates say so. The numbers don’t.

The anti-regulatory fervor was in evidence Tuesday night in the latest GOP debate, but rhetorical flourishes, on that and other issues, masked far more complex realities.

A look at some of the claims and how they compare with the facts.