Posted on 07/08/2017 6:59:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Well, you didn’t have much choice, but I would have preferred a conservative. He was so phony.
Nope. Back in the late 80s, Dole lead the fight to get a balanced budget amendment. He did not have the votes in the senate so he voted against it to shelve it so it could be brought up again. He was ONE vote shy.
It was the mid 90s. My bad, and I thought I remember it during the late 80s.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-03/news/mn-38285_1_balanced-budget-amendment
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