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On the recordSeptember 13, 2016
the idea that people here complain about that the executive has too much power, and we have just handed over to the executive the ability to determine where some of these Federal funds that we all allocate go, it never made any sense to me.
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Jim McGovern
Democratic · Massachusetts

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McGovern criticizes the delegation of funding decisions to the executive branch.

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