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Steny Hoyer: “We could double the legislative budget and not be able to do…”

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

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Hoyer: We're Advancing a Bill that Does Not Adequately Invest in Making Congress Work for the People

Published | Video Starts at 02:27

I think we've had more hearings than any other committee. God bless you. But we are woefully underfunding for the capacity of our job so we could substantially increase. We could double the legislative budget and not be able to do the job of overseeing a huge executive department. And we ought to all be concerned about that, whatever the administration is, that we do not have the capacity, we don't have the resources, we don't have the staff … (02:27–02:36)

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Asserts that even doubling the legislative budget would be insufficient for effective oversight of the executive department.

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