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On the recordJune 20, 2012
We have changed that and gotten it to where the legislature has full control. This has to change. Congress has to take back its ability to handle the law as it is imposed and the burden that is imposed on the American people. I yield the floor.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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