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On the recordDecember 14, 2009
If it can't restrain itself, then somebody has to. That tends to be the executive branch.
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Evan Bayh
Democratic · Indiana

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Evan Bayh suggests that if Congress cannot control its spending, the executive branch must intervene.

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