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Bill Clinton: Well, I don't know what else I can do. I'm doing--I think I'm doing everything I can. I certainly have made it…

On the recordAugust 11, 1995
Well, I don't know what else I can do. I'm doing--I think I'm doing everything I can. I certainly have made it absolutely clear where I stand. I have resisted the attempts in the Congress to take away the rights of choice to women in the service, to women who work for the Federal Government. There is a wholesale assault on the right to choose going on in the Congress now in all kinds of little, indirect ways. And I hope we can beat it back because I think it's--I don't think that's the right thing to do. I don't think the law here is the way to resolve all these problems. Opposition in Congress Ms. Soren. You've used executive actions in the first 2 years of your Presidency for issues like abortion. And in recent months, with the Republican majority, you've turned to them more frequently, the regulation of teenage smoking being the most recent one. Do you feel like you're subverting the will of Congress by tackling issues this way?
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