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Trent Lott: “I want to assure him that, even if he succeeds in blocking the balanced budget amendment, he is not going to block…”

On the recordJune 3, 1996
I want to assure him that, even if he succeeds in blocking the balanced budget amendment, he is not going to block Congress' efforts to curb his tax-and-spend approach to Government. That is the meaning of the budget resolution the House and Senate have already passed. And it will be the clear and frugal bottom line of the appropriation bills we will send down to the White House over the next 4 months. One way or another, the taxpayers are going to win this fight. President Clinton and his Senate allies can delay that outcome, but they cannot prevent it forever.
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Addressing the balanced budget amendment and government spending during a Senate floor debate.

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