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On the recordApril 18, 2016
the laser focus of this Task Force is to dismantle guidelines that would provide States greater flexibility in determining its work requirements in the program, and this is nothing more than just conservative politics against poor people.
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Hank Johnson
Democratic · Georgia

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Johnson condemns the Task Force for targeting guidelines that aid the needy, calling it conservative politics.

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