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On the recordJanuary 23, 2011
It sounds like a backdoor way of legislating again, when they are charged with actually just making the rules to implement a bill already signed into law.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Conyers critiques the REINS Act as a means to re-legislate existing laws.

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