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Jeff Sessions: “Without any explicit, express authorization from the elected representatives of the American people, under this decision…”

On the recordJanuary 15, 2014
Without any explicit, express authorization from the elected representatives of the American people, under this decision you have made, the Environmental Protection Agency can go into any American's backyard, prohibit their barbecue grill, eliminate their lawnmower.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions criticizes EPA's power to regulate carbon without congressional approval.

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