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Eric Holder: “If there are statutory mandates from Congress, those are the kinds of things that have to be used when we are proposing…”

On the recordApril 7, 2014
If there are statutory mandates from Congress, those are the kinds of things that have to be used when we are proposing rules, regulations, things of that nature.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Holder affirmed that federal agencies must follow statutory mandates from Congress.

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