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On the recordApril 21, 2013
This bill gives the Secretary, you, extraordinary discretion if it were to become law in making many, many decisions about how the law would be carried out.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Sessions expresses concern over the bill's broad discretionary powers for the Secretary.

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