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On the recordOctober 15, 1997
I hereby cancel the dollar amount of discretionary budget authority.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Line Item Veto of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1998

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