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Katie Hill: “We are an independent branch of government, and it is time we start acting like it.”

On the recordMarch 13, 2019
We are an independent branch of government, and it is time we start acting like it.
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Katie Hill
California

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Hill emphasizes the need for Congress to assert its independence.

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