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Summer Lee: I would think that the exercise of executive privilege so extensively yesterday was an abuse of the rights of this…

On the recordJune 19, 2019
I would think that the exercise of executive privilege so extensively yesterday was an abuse of the rights of this Congress.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Critique of the extensive use of executive privilege in Congress.

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