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On the recordMay 23, 2000
I think that is true on the Democratic side of the aisle, and I think it is true in the White House. But we know we cannot get it done by ourselves. We can bring a Republican bill out here, a purely Republican bill, and if the Democrats in the House and the Senate tell the President it is a bad bill, he will veto it. That has not helped a single senior. So we have to try to get a bill through the Congress that Republicans and Democrats like. We have to be able to do what most Americans want us to do, compromise, find the middle, accept each other's positive suggestions, get that job done, put the bill on the President's desk. I believe that this President, as he leaves town, can say that is one thing I got done; and I think this Congress can say, come the election, come what may, we got that job done.
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James P. Greenwood
Pennsylvania

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Discussing the need for bipartisan cooperation to pass legislation.

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