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Mike Thompson: Unfortunately, not as close as I think the Senator apparently thinks. With regard to the labor-management relations…

On the recordOctober 1, 2002
Unfortunately, not as close as I think the Senator apparently thinks. With regard to the labor-management relations issue... why should this President be limited to exercising his authority to a more narrow range of activity--that would be terrorism--when there could be some other national security issues that prior Presidents have had the opportunity to deal with that this President would not?
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Mike Thompson
Democratic · California

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Discussing labor-management relations and presidential authority in the context of national security.

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