George Bush actually said...

I challenged the Congress to 'pass a truly clean reconciliation bill that produces real deficit reduction -- without new taxes, without spending measures that increase the deficit in the future, and without scoring gimmicks.'

Context

Statement on Signing the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989

12/18/1989

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