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On the recordMay 24, 1996
The only question I was concerned about is that originally we had four or five individual votes and then that would have been included in a total package, with the coupling of maybe a poison pill or two there, that the President may not particularly like and said he would have to veto that with that pill. If we get the House bill and then that is a stand-alone, and we get the amendments and let the Senate work its will, I think we are getting very close to an agreement on minimum wage. I thank the majority leader.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan
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Discussing the progress on minimum wage legislation during a House floor debate.

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