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Cord Byrd: “There we have it. A member of the response team is saying, ``There are options, are there not?'' Let us read this first…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 1995
There we have it. A member of the response team is saying, ``There are options, are there not?'' Let us read this first paragraph of the balanced budget amendment: Total outlays for any fiscal year shall not exceed total receipts for that fiscal year . . . It does not give you any option. It does not give me any option. The American people out there can read and they can understand. Senator, you can say all you want to, and you can weasel around the word ``can.'' If an excess of outlays over receipts were to occur, Congress can require . . . Well, that is an escape hatch. It can require----
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Cord Byrd
Florida
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Discussing the implications of the balanced budget amendment.

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