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On the recordMay 8, 2019
I do not understand why we want to burden people all over this country to pay for programs for prisons by giving them Pell Grants when the States themselves can take care of this.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Foxx questions the need for federal Pell Grants for prison programs when states can fund them.

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