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Charles W. Stenholm: “Not at our request, I would say to the gentleman. We preferred to have the nutrition programs in this bill, but it was…”

On the recordFebruary 29, 1996
Not at our request, I would say to the gentleman. We preferred to have the nutrition programs in this bill, but it was at the request of a point of order of those that choose not to have them included that they were extracted.

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Discussing the exclusion of nutrition programs from a bill during a debate.

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