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Bill Delahunt: “What we need is the Congress to reassert itself, coming together on a bipartisan basis and demanding oversight because…”

On the recordNovember 8, 2005
What we need is the Congress to reassert itself, coming together on a bipartisan basis and demanding oversight because, you know what, this administration is the most secretive administration in all of American history. Let me make one final quote, to take one final quote from another Republican, from the Midwest, from the farm belt, Senator Hagel from Nebraska. He had this to say back in 2004. This is not a Democrat. This is his language. This administration has seen Congress as an enemy and a constitutional nuisance. The world right now is in trouble, and we need to have a Congress and a President and an executive branch that is working together. Amen.
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

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