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Ronald Reagan: “The practice of loading the budget with unnecessary spending—and then waiting until after the eleventh hour to pass a…”

On the recordNovember 22, 1981
The practice of loading the budget with unnecessary spending—and then waiting until after the eleventh hour to pass a Continuing Resolution on the assumption that it was safe from a Presidential veto—has gone on much too long.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval the Continuing Resolution for Fiscal Year 1982...

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