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John Garamendi: “It just seems to me, somewhere the administration has found 25 million extra dollars to backfill and to handle a problem…”

On the recordMay 20, 2013
It just seems to me, somewhere the administration has found 25 million extra dollars to backfill and to handle a problem that it is creating by changing the P.L. 480 program.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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Garamendi criticizes the administration's handling of the P.L. 480 program and its funding.

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