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On the recordApril 18, 2016
Today's Executive Overreach Task Force, or President Obama's still President--we shall continue the lashings--hearing is to congressional hearings what a clip show is to a television series.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen criticizes the hearing as repetitive and lacking original ideas.

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