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Bill Clinton: It was an amazing thing, folks. We had the chemical companies, the labor unions, and the Sierra Club all for the bill.…

On the recordOctober 31, 1994
It was an amazing thing, folks. We had the chemical companies, the labor unions, and the Sierra Club all for the bill. It was almost spooky. They don't agree on when the Sun's coming up in the morning. But they agreed that we had to get together and clean up the toxic waste dumps in America. No one in America was against it except a few more than 40 Republican Senators. And they preferred to leave the poison in the ground so they would have a political issue, so Harris Wofford---- Audience members. Boo-o-o!
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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