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On the recordJuly 28, 2009
The residents who are given Section 8 vouchers, and I think you described something like 61,000 of those, I'll go back and take a look, had they been tracked?
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Chairwoman Waters questions the tracking of Section 8 voucher recipients.

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