Bill Clinton actually said...

We want to make sure that we have—that on the laws already on the books, the money already appropriated, the things that the Federal Government can just go ahead and pay for directly.

Context

Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion on Hurricane Fran in Raleigh, North Carolina

09/13/1996

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