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Robert C. Byrd: “I believe in the Constitution. I believe that the people would rue the day that the line-item veto was ever written into…”

On the recordApril 26, 1990
I believe in the Constitution. I believe that the people would rue the day that the line-item veto was ever written into law or into that Constitution.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Apr 26, 1990

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Debating a proposed line-item veto.

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