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Chakab

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4. How does this stupidity go unchecked? First off, an appointed cabinet Secretary has no power to

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 20, 2016, 06:47 PM

Jan 2016

abolish their own department.

Secondly, most of the regulatory powers that she's talking about fall under the purview of the Department of the Interior.

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