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Sean Patrick Maloney: if my majority colleagues have their way this morning, we will empower the chair of the Committee on Government Reform…

On the recordJune 20, 1997
if my majority colleagues have their way this morning, we will empower the chair of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight as never before, and I have just one question to ask my colleagues: Can anyone tell me when in the history of this Congress has this kind of authority been exercised unilaterally?
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Sean Patrick Maloney
New York

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Discussing the empowerment of the chair of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight.

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