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Steny Hoyer: “It is intentional to marginalize the work of the Congress…”

Featuring: Steny Hoyer, Democratic | U.S. House Maryland, 5th Congressional District

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Hoyer: It's Intentional to Marginalize the Work of the Congress and of the Appropriations Committee

Published | Video Starts at 01:56

… is probably not an accurate figure, but it's clearly indicative of how robustly the IRS enforcement and other aspects of taxpayer service, which is what funded during the course of … It is intentional to marginalize the work of the Congress generally and the Appropriations committee specifically. … Secretary Besant, which is the one large department that we fund. We fund a lot of other very important enterprises, including GSA and OPM and OMB and the White House, none of whom have testified before our committee. (01:56–02:06)

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Asserts that there is an intentional effort to marginalize the work of Congress and the Appropriations committee.

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