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On the recordJanuary 11, 2016
But if that is where all of this is going, that is bad news for poor people, and it is bad news for the vulnerable populations that our witnesses here today represent.
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Jim McGovern
Democratic · Massachusetts

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McGovern warns that block-granting SNAP would negatively impact vulnerable populations.

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