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Cord Byrd: “Number one, the Senator has stated that all of the Reagan budgets were dead on arrival. I call the distinguished…”

On the recordFebruary 16, 1995
Number one, the Senator has stated that all of the Reagan budgets were dead on arrival. I call the distinguished Senator's attention to the fact that some of those budgets were subjected to a vote in this body or the other body or both and the Republican Members did not vote for those Reagan budgets. I believe I am correct in that. If I am not, I will be glad for someone to correct me. Second, the Senator is in error--I know this to be a fact--when he indicated, as I thought I understood him to so indicate, that in the case of all of Mr. Reagan's budgets the Congress increased those budgets. That is not the case, if I understood the Senator correctly.
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Cord Byrd
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Addressing claims about the voting on Reagan's budgets during Senate floor debate.

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