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Bill Clinton: Well, in the beginning we knew that, based on the CBO budgeting rules, we wouldn't have--we couldn't raise enough money…

On the recordApril 26, 1994
Well, in the beginning we knew that, based on the CBO budgeting rules, we wouldn't have--we couldn't raise enough money anyway to guarantee a job, publicly funded job, for every person on public assistance that might not have a job within the 2-year time period. So we'll have to phase that portion of it in. But it'll still be quite an extensive program.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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