Do you support it? Well, again, in general, what I was saying is that prior Congresses have willingly given up an awful lot of their constitutional authority to the executive branch. We haven't done anything specifically for President Trump. He's just coming into office with all that authority. Whether we can claw that back, whether we should claw that back, that's open for discussion. Specific to how it would work in this bill, though, is that something you would support? (07:25–07:33)
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