We need to acknowledge that that sometimes happens more slowly than we would like. But that is, and above all, that's what we have to try to continue to do. We cannot allow the president or his lacking thus vote to control the power of the purse that singularly belongs to the US Congress and the Appropriations Committee. And that for me, that is what I'm about. We talked about like that every day, Mark. They cannot go around us, which is what Russ Boat wants to do. (27:52–28:11)
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Asserts that control over the power of the purse belongs to Congress and the Appropriations Committee.
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