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Chris Smith: If we do provide aid, we ought to provide free textbooks, so that parents don't have that burden...

On the recordJuly 11, 2016
If we do provide aid, we ought to provide free textbooks, so that parents don't have that burden...
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Advocating for free textbooks to prevent parents from sending children to madrassas.

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