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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: I think your comments are a good segue to where we should close which is that the Congress has now finally reasserted…

On the recordJanuary 31, 2007
I think your comments are a good segue to where we should close which is that the Congress has now finally reasserted our constitutional role to be a check, a check and a balance over the other branches of government, particularly over the executive branch in which that authority and oversight was completely ceded over the last 12 years. I sit on the House Judiciary Committee. We had an oversight committee today on the presidential signing statement where the President, this President in particular more than any other President combined, has issued signing statements, his opinion and his interpretation of legislation which is really the judicial branch's responsibility, that he would just choose not to implement or implement in the way that he wanted to, a particular section of law, wholly inappropriate. Congress is back in our appropriate role.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

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Discussing Congress's role in oversight of the executive branch during a House Judiciary Committee meeting.

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