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Mike Conaway: “The family I am going to have in the front of my mind is a single mom struggling to make ends meet.”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2017
The family I am going to have in the front of my mind is a single mom struggling to make ends meet.
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Mike Conaway
Texas

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Emphasizing the importance of considering low-income families in food policy decisions.

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