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Roland Gutierrez: “I tell the gentleman from Massachusetts, he and I know each other. He knows I have been for a line-item veto. My record…”

On the recordFebruary 2, 1995
I tell the gentleman from Massachusetts, he and I know each other. He knows I have been for a line-item veto. My record is clear. There are many of us on this side, the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Barrett], many of us. So do not chastise us. Do not ridicule us by saying that somehow we are hypocritical and Johnny-come-latelies on this when we have stood up and now that the gentleman is in the majority, it is bipartisan, too, when I am with him, just like it was bipartisan when other Members of my party joined the gentleman in the past 2 weeks.
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Defending his support for a line-item veto during a debate on bipartisan cooperation.

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