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Virginia Foxx: “I don't think the federal government needs to pay to spread them around.”

On the recordMarch 27, 2012
I don't think the federal government needs to pay to spread them around.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Argument against federal funding for community college initiatives.

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