Federal agencies will now have unilateral power to trigger privilege on the Senate floor with no institutional check from the legislative branch. Just as EPA has submitted California's waivers with full knowledge that they are not actually rules, Other agencies will now be free to submit any type of action going back to 1996. Think licenses, permits, leases, loan agreements, drug approvals. There would be no limit. Now, we've been safe from this kind of abuse until now because the Senate has a process, … (01:13–01:22)
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