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Mike Lee: the lawmaking power that we the people delegated to the Federal Government is vested in this body, in the Congress of…

On the recordDecember 9, 2014
the lawmaking power that we the people delegated to the Federal Government is vested in this body, in the Congress of the United States, not in the Executive.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Lee emphasizes that lawmaking is a Congressional power, not an Executive one.

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