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Peter Deutsch: “I think it is a very serious question and a very good question. I would tell you, I really believe there is a middle…”

On the recordJanuary 3, 1996
I think it is a very serious question and a very good question. I would tell you, I really believe there is a middle ground that unfortunately, I will be honest with you, I do not think either party represents. I think what the President said privately, I do not believe he said it publicly, he wants a budget that 100 Republicans and 100 Democrats will vote for. But the truth is in this Chamber, the way this process works, we are never going to have an opportunity to vote for a budget that 107 Democrats and Republicans will vote for, but we might. Let me follow through on that thought, because something is going to give. What is going to give is either there is going to be a two-thirds, or it might not, projecting the way this thing is going to play itself out.
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Peter Deutsch
Florida
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Discussing the need for bipartisan support in budget negotiations.

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