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On the recordMarch 5, 2014
Where is it in the Constitution of the United States that says that the U.S. House of Representatives, the representatives of the people of the United States, have any authority to call on the United States as a whole to do anything?
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Alan Grayson
Democratic · Florida

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Grayson questions the constitutional authority of the House to mandate actions.

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