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Lloyd Doggett: “Really, is not the measure what one would properly call a wreckonciliation bill, in that it wrecks the balanced budget…”

On the recordJune 25, 1997
Really, is not the measure what one would properly call a wreckonciliation bill, in that it wrecks the balanced budget agreement?
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the impact of a bill on the balanced budget agreement.

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