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Gary Peters: “This is profoundly hideous and utterly unconstitutional that bureaucrats in the Executive Branch would have power that…”

On the recordJune 5, 2018
This is profoundly hideous and utterly unconstitutional that bureaucrats in the Executive Branch would have power that Madison and Company expressly gave only to the Congress.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Senator Peters criticizes the delegation of power to the Executive Branch.

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