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Bill Clinton: That it's--the same thing I've always said: It's up to Congress. I read a book the other night that in the early part of…

On the recordMarch 17, 1994
That it's--the same thing I've always said: It's up to Congress. I read a book the other night that in the early part of our century, one of our first four or five Presidents, a $40 mirror was bought for the White House that was bought in another country, and the Congress in the early 1800's spent several thousand dollars on hearings looking into this $40 mirror. So I don't know that--it's up to the Congress. They're an independent and coequal branch of Government, and they ought to do whatever it is they think is the right thing to do. Bosnia
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Bill Clinton
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