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Joe Biden: “If the Senator will yield. He wants written into law in the passage of the amendment to the Washington treaty a…”

On the recordApril 28, 1998
If the Senator will yield. He wants written into law in the passage of the amendment to the Washington treaty a commitment that the United States national budget will now and forever not exceed 25 percent of all the money we decide to spend in the European theater. I can't imagine the Senator from Virginia supporting that.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Discussing budget commitments related to the Washington treaty during Senate debate.

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