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Ed Case: “Congress should hope to control the President. That's our…”

Featuring: Ed Case, Democratic | U.S. House Hawaii, 1st Congressional District

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June 1st Districtwide Tele-Talk Story

Published | Video Starts at 1:14:13

And that's true of everybody else that has written me on this. Puakea, can Congress hope to control the President? While I spoke to this earlier, absolutely. Congress should hope to control the President. That's our job. We are supposed to be exerting checks and balances on this president. Again, I will repeat that. One of the major failings of the current Congress generally and my majority colleagues, my Republican majority colleagues in both the House and the Senate … (1:14:13–1:14:22)

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Asserts that Congress has a duty to check and balance the President's power.

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