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Bill Clinton: It will get straightened out if it passes, because once the bill passes, reality takes over and the rhetoric shrinks.

On the recordAugust 3, 1993
It will get straightened out if it passes, because once the bill passes, reality takes over and the rhetoric shrinks.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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