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On the recordMay 14, 2019
Members of Congress before I got here gave up a lot of our, you know, the authority that we have in Article I to Article II, and that is a problem, but, however, you use it in the right way.
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Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana

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Mike Johnson discusses the transfer of authority from Congress to the Executive branch.

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