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Louis Stokes: “What precisely my amendment would do is to add additional vouchers up to the amount of $97 million, which is the…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1998
What precisely my amendment would do is to add additional vouchers up to the amount of $97 million, which is the requested amount by the administration, which would automatically provide additional vouchers, additional opportunities, for welfare to work for those persons who are residents of public housing.
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Louis Stokes
Ohio

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Discussing an amendment related to welfare-to-work vouchers for public housing residents.

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