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On the recordJune 12, 1996
You have had your opportunity to misrepresent the facts, including the fact that only a handful of Democrats supported the conservative coalition budget when well over a majority of our caucus supported that budget. It gets the budget deficit down this year, it gets the budget deficit down next year, and every year until it achieves true balance. It does not talk. It has real action in the numbers and the real numbers.
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

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Defending the Democratic caucus's support for the budget during a debate.

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