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Risch Statement on Obama Executive Order

Statement

Date: Nov. 24, 2014
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Executive Branch Immigration

U.S. Senator Jim Risch made the following statement on President Obama's announcement of executive action on immigration:

"These are troubling times for America, when the President of the United States by executive decree seizes the Constitutional lawmaking power that belongs to the first branch of government. Regardless of the issue or who is president, every American should be deeply distressed by this new government the president is attempting to establish."


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