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Tom McClintock: I think the structure on that oversight board, it seems to me that it violates, indeed it renounces the most basic…

On the recordApril 12, 2016
I think the structure on that oversight board, it seems to me that it violates, indeed it renounces the most basic architecture of American constitutional government.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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Criticism of the oversight board's structure undermining constitutional government principles.

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