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Robert C. Byrd: “In a literal sense we have not been elected just by our contemporaries but we must also serve the people who are still…”

On the recordMarch 12, 1986
In a literal sense we have not been elected just by our contemporaries but we must also serve the people who are still to come in the future.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Mar 12, 1986

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Offering a substitute balanced budget constitutional amendment.

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