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Harry Flood Byrd: “How did my friend from Colorado, Mr. Brown, vote on the reconciliation bill which reduced the budget over a period of 5…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 1994
How did my friend from Colorado, Mr. Brown, vote on the reconciliation bill which reduced the budget over a period of 5 years, by somewhere between $450 billion to $500 billion. How did my friend vote on that? There was his chance to cut.
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Harry Flood Byrd
Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Senator Byrd is questioning a colleague's voting record on a significant budget reconciliation bill.

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