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T. Gorton: “I wonder if the Senator from Georgia agrees with this proposition. Does he not believe, as I do, that if this bill were…”

On the recordJune 21, 1996
I wonder if the Senator from Georgia agrees with this proposition. Does he not believe, as I do, that if this bill were to come back to the Senate with this modest experiment on medical savings accounts included, it would have a significant majority of the votes of the Members of this body, Democrats as well as Republicans, and would easily go to the President, and that one of the reasons for this filibuster is to prevent that majority view from prevailing and to prevent the embarrassment of the President either having to veto this proposal as he has threatened to do or actually to back off and sign it?
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T. Gorton
Republican · Washington
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Discussing the potential support for a bill including medical savings accounts during Senate debate.

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