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Evan Bayh: If it can't restrain itself, then somebody has to. That tends to be the executive branch.

On the recordDecember 14, 2009
If it can't restrain itself, then somebody has to. That tends to be the executive branch.
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Evan Bayh

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Evan Bayh suggests that if Congress cannot control its spending, the executive branch must intervene.

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