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On the recordJune 18, 1996
As the Senator from Georgia noted, all three amendments are similar. The Senator from Oklahoma says the Danforth and Nunn amendments are 'exactly the same thing.' Yet last year he voted against the Johnston amendment, which also dealt with judicial review. Perhaps the next time we are discussing identical proposals on the balanced budget amendment, the junior Senator from Oklahoma can inform all of us concerning what was so different about the Johnston amendment on judicial review to justify his different positions. I would think he would consider it to be the same exact language. The junior Senator from Oklahoma continues to try to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan
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Discussing the similarities and differences between various amendments related to judicial review.

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