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Robert C. Byrd: “In the face of the deepest and severest recession since the days of the Great Depression, this Congress is about to…”

On the recordDecember 20, 1982
In the face of the deepest and severest recession since the days of the Great Depression, this Congress is about to adjourn without having enacted any jobs program into law.
Said by
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Dec 20, 1982

Editor's note · Context

Criticizing the dropping of a jobs program from the continuing resolution.

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