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Charles W. Stenholm: “Sometimes it is rather amusing if you have been around for a few years, as I have. The last time this was seriously…”

On the recordJune 24, 2004
Sometimes it is rather amusing if you have been around for a few years, as I have. The last time this was seriously discussed, my friends on this side of the aisle opposed it. They believe the expedited rescission was a bad idea and that we ought to go with line-item veto. The person that interjected taxes into this was Bob Michel, the minority leader, in suggesting that if you really want to do this in a way in which it will work, you put everything on the table. The gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt) supported that, and today it is why it is so difficult. The gentleman from Iowa (Chairman Nussle) was talking about, it is us. It is we. It is pretty difficult for 'we' to work on things when we keep changing what we think because of the current political environment that we have.
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Discussing the challenges of political consensus on budgetary issues.

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