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Tom Vilsack: “I can't see the reason to reduce the standards.”

On the recordJune 15, 2015
I can't see the reason to reduce the standards.
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Tom Vilsack
Democratic · Iowa

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Vilsack defends the necessity of maintaining school nutrition standards.

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