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Steve Womack: The challenge with Congress is that we create commissions and we create task forces and we look at problem sets, and we…

On the recordOctober 18, 2023
The challenge with Congress is that we create commissions and we create task forces and we look at problem sets, and we develop potential solutions, and then there is no real mechanism to give them the force of law
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Steve Womack
Republican · Arkansas

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Womack discusses the difficulties in making commission recommendations legally binding.

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