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Bill Clinton: They basically said that--they said they were for the line-item veto, but once I became President and they had the…

On the recordSeptember 21, 1995
They basically said that--they said they were for the line-item veto, but once I became President and they had the Congress so they were in charge of the spending, they didn't want to give me the line-item veto. Mr. King. So you think there's no doubt it's just deliberate because of Bill Clinton? If it were a Republican President, they'd have had it done?
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Bill Clinton
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