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Ronald Reagan: “I cannot support this effort to confer special relief in the guise of general legislation at a possible loss to the…”

On the recordDecember 28, 1981
I cannot support this effort to confer special relief in the guise of general legislation at a possible loss to the Treasury of $1.6 million.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Memorandum of Disapproval of Legislation Concerning a Law on Bankruptcies

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