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Bill Clinton: Well, I don't know. That's up to them. We have to have some significant amount of Republican support to get a strong…

On the recordJuly 21, 1998
Well, I don't know. That's up to them. We have to have some significant amount of Republican support to get a strong bill. We have to have 60 votes to break a filibuster in the Senate and, obviously, a majority in the House, sufficient to actually make sure the bill could come to a vote. But we're still working on it, and it's terribly important. Everywhere I go in the country--you know, I was just home last weekend, and I was stunned at the number of people who came up to me and just started talking about it and talking about their own experiences and how important they thought it was. So I'm very hopeful we'll get it.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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