Political Quotes

On the recordJuly 22, 2014
You have not been given explicit statutory authority power to do what you are doing.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Sessions questions the EPA's authority to regulate significant portions of the economy.

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