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Jeff Sessions: “A guidance document cannot amount to an amendment of a law. Bureaucrats do not have... to rewrite the law.”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
A guidance document cannot amount to an amendment of a law. Bureaucrats do not have... to rewrite the law.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Sessions emphasizes the importance of Congress making laws, not bureaucrats.

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