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On the recordMarch 12, 1950
The transfer of the responsibility for making payments to local school districts whose operating deficits are due in part to Federal activities is unlikely to result in an immediate reduction in expenditures for the administration of the program.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 16 of 1950.

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