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Porter Goss: “I think that that was the clarification that we were all seeking with regard to the line item veto, and I think that to…”

On the recordApril 17, 1996
I think that that was the clarification that we were all seeking with regard to the line item veto, and I think that to go any further than that, to try and somehow now amend the line item veto, would of course not only be inappropriate but nongermane and beyond the scope and so forth.
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Porter Goss
Florida

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Discussing the line item veto during a committee meeting.

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