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Gerald Ford: “Knowing the Senator from Wyoming, he will not have to take his money with him. He can write a check where he is going. I…”

On the recordJune 7, 1996
Knowing the Senator from Wyoming, he will not have to take his money with him. He can write a check where he is going. I am very concerned that we talk about IOU's and they are really the bills. We talk about raiding and, no, we are not raiding. You cannot do that. But the Members of this body will implement an amendment to the Constitution. As the senior Senator from Oklahoma said yesterday, he objected to voting on the amendment to put up the firewall for Social Security because it was taxes collected and taxes expended. He wanted it in the balanced budget amendment. I thank the Chair and my friend from Wyoming. I am going to leave the Senator. I am hungry.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan
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Discussing concerns about Social Security and the balanced budget amendment.

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