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Summer Lee: We are on the floor of the House debating a regulatory scheme that would call on this body to exert itself over every…

On the recordFebruary 10, 2011
We are on the floor of the House debating a regulatory scheme that would call on this body to exert itself over every regulatory--major regulation that would come out of the executive.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Sheila Jackson Lee discusses the House's role in overseeing executive regulations.

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