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Tom Carper: “Can you identify any use for presidential rescission authority if the President cannot get a vote in Congress?”

On the recordDecember 15, 2009
Can you identify any use for presidential rescission authority if the President cannot get a vote in Congress?
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Senator Carper questions the effectiveness of rescission authority without Congressional support.

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