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Jeff Sessions: “Agencies oftentimes see themselves as independent fiefdoms.”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
Agencies oftentimes see themselves as independent fiefdoms.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Sessions comments on the independence of agencies within the executive branch.

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