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Virginia Foxx: “I will tell you that I was very, very poor growing up, but I worked my way through college.”

On the recordMarch 12, 2019
I will tell you that I was very, very poor growing up, but I worked my way through college.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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Virginia Foxx shares her personal experience of overcoming financial hardship to achieve education.

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