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Willie Hefner: “Does my memory fail me? Did we not pass the line-item veto in the last session of Congress?”

On the recordJanuary 4, 1996
Does my memory fail me? Did we not pass the line-item veto in the last session of Congress?
Said by
Willie Hefner
Democratic · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the passage of the line-item veto in a previous congressional session.

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