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Steve King: “I think it is important for us to ask these kind of questions because each time we go to work during the day there has…”

On the recordJuly 23, 2012
I think it is important for us to ask these kind of questions because each time we go to work during the day there has got to be a purpose, and that purpose is that Congress writes laws, and then we direct the executive branch to carry out those laws.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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King emphasizes the importance of Congress's role in creating and enforcing laws.

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