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Mike Lee: “We have to make a number of these decisions on our own regardless of whether the courts are going to do them for us.”

On the recordFebruary 1, 2011
We have to make a number of these decisions on our own regardless of whether the courts are going to do them for us.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Senator Lee asserts the responsibility of Congress to make decisions independently of the courts.

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