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On the recordSeptember 3, 2018
we are shirking our own responsibility because we are making lawmakers rather than laws, and we are also consolidating into one body the power to make and enforce laws, which is not only something that can lead to tyranny, it is the very definition of 'tyranny' itself.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Senator Lee discusses the dangers of delegating legislative power to the executive.

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