And the problem we all have, as Members of Congress, is the fact that we go back and talk to our constituents, and then we have to answer to them, for where our levels of bureaucracy have failed, where they should have never been put in the position where they were going to fail in the first place, when they told us they could do it.
Mike Bost: “And the problem we all have, as Members of Congress, is the fact that we go back and talk to our constituents, and then…”
On the recordNovember 14, 2018
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Bost discusses accountability to constituents regarding bureaucratic failures.
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