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Mike Lee: “Congress has the power to establish rules and regulations…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 25th

Published | Video Starts at 32:47

There's one other I'll mention here that's not founded in Article 1, Section 8. There's one that's founded in Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1, that gives Congress has the power to establish rules and regulations governing the election of federal officials. principally U.S. senators and U.S. representatives. He understood and in fact openly provided in Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1, that those elections would be conducted not by a federal election official. (32:47–33:00)

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Asserts that Congress can regulate federal elections.

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