Conrad also appeared on This Week. The U.S.Constitution gives Congress power over the nation's purse strings.

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"This bipartisan letter from senators to the administration is a very significant one because of the growing opposition both among Republicans and Democrats to holding the trial in New York,but too,in the end, the Congress has the power of the purse,"

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