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Patrick Leahy: “How do you, by statute, change, even for a matter of days, a Presidential salary? Doesn't it violate article 2 of the…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2011
How do you, by statute, change, even for a matter of days, a Presidential salary? Doesn't it violate article 2 of the Constitution?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
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govinfo.gov
Mar 1, 2011

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Leahy questions the constitutionality of changing presidential salaries retroactively.

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