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Jimmy Carter: I cannot approve this legislation because: it mandates funding for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Demonstration Plant…

On the recordNovember 4, 1977
I cannot approve this legislation because: it mandates funding for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Demonstration Plant, that will result in a large and unnecessarily expensive project.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Message to the Senate Returning S. 1811 Without Approval

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