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And I’m sure I have that old list somewhere buried in my papers, though I can’t find it. A few days later, Al Gore went to see Yeltsin when he was in Moscow for the fourth meeting of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission for Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation. To attract that kind of money and avoid a precipitous drop in the value of the dollar, we had to keep int After breaking for Christmas, I vetoed one more budget bill, the National Defense Authorization Act.

The next day the stock market fell 115 points, prompting me to tease Bob Rubin again about how much Wall Street hated it when average Americans did well. The economic team was adamantly opposed to including health care in the budget, and they had good reasons, too. Several years earlier, I had faced a similar situation as governor. Senate race.