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On the recordJanuary 16, 1977
There is no excuse, for example, for the Federal Government to have 15 different child nutrition programs spending over $3 billion per year and still have 700,000 children from families below the poverty line who receive no aid.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Annual Budget Message to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1978

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