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FDR: It is, of course, perfectly clear that the House Committee has every right in the world to make any kind of…

On the recordNovember 25, 1940
It is, of course, perfectly clear that the House Committee has every right in the world to make any kind of investigation, but the House Committee cannot conduct the administrative functions of Government under the Constitution.
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Democratic · New York

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