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Gregory Meeks: Let me just say that from my understanding, we are a separate but equal branch of government. The Executive does its…

On the recordFebruary 15, 2007
Let me just say that from my understanding, we are a separate but equal branch of government. The Executive does its thing; we do ours. And part of our responsibility is to debate, investigate and evaluate what the President says and not simply rubber-stamp what he says. So we are doing our job and what the American people elect us to do
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Discussing the role of Congress in relation to the Executive branch.

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