The President's Radio Address
06/06/1997
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I am vetoing H.R. 2586, which the congressional leadership sent to me last night.
I urge the Congress to meet its responsibilities by sending me the remaining regular FY 1996 appropriations bills in acceptable form.
This bill would make it almost inevitable that the Government would default for the first time in our history.
If I signed my name to this bill now, millions of elderly couples all across this country would be forced to sign away $264 more in Medicare...