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On the recordMarch 29, 2011
the oversight in Congress is much too diffuse and overlapping, and the consequence of that is that we are taking much too much time of the executives, particularly in the Department of Homeland Security.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Collins emphasizes the inefficiency of congressional oversight affecting executive time.

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