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On the recordMarch 28, 2023
If you can't stay on mission and enforce the laws as they already are on the books, how can you ask Congress for more authority with a straight face?
Said by
Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Scott questions the Federal Reserve's ability to enforce laws while seeking more authority.

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