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The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, You know, we don't like that so we're going to do something else, if there is a majority in Congress to do something else.
Tim Kaine
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Tim Kaine
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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