On the recordMarch 3, 2009
I have repeatedly said on the Senate floor that the period from 9/11/2001 to the end of the Bush administration has seen the greatest expansion of executive power in the history of our country.
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congress.govArlen Specter: “I have repeatedly said on the Senate floor that the period from 9/11/2001 to the end of the Bush administration has seen…”
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Specter discusses the expansion of executive power post-9/11.
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