House Minority Leader Gephardt sounded the only non-celebratory note in the proceedings. He asked Clinton to use his line-item veto to strike a budget provision that will allow the tobacco industry to deduct the cost of its US$368 billion national health settlement from its tax bills for the next several decades.
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House Minority Leader Gephardt sounded the only non-celebratory note in the proceedings. He asked Clinton to use his line-item veto to strike a budget provision that will allow the tobacco industry to deduct the cost of its US$368 billion national health settlement from its tax bills for the next several decades.
