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Lindsey Graham: “The principle? If the goal is to accomplish the objective, why could it not have been stated in an absolute amount as…”

On the recordSeptember 14, 1995
The principle? If the goal is to accomplish the objective, why could it not have been stated in an absolute amount as opposed to a percentage of a block grant, which is very different from State to State?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the structure of funding in a block grant proposal.

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