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Diana Harshbarger: “We are giving up our legislative authority to these…”

Featuring: Diana Harshbarger, Republican | U.S. House Tennessee, 1st Congressional District

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Full interview with Reps. Jake Auchincloss and Diana Harshbarger | POLITICO Health Care Summit 2025

Published | Video Starts at 15:47

Is it your prerogative to do this? Listen, I'm right there in the same boat, but the bottom line, the antitrust with the ftc, there's going to have to be something done. We are giving up our legislative authority to these agencies. And, and we shouldn't have done that. We instituted these agencies to protect the American taxpayer. But yet again, we don't legislate on the things that we need to legislate on. (15:47–15:52)

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