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Mike Conaway: Cutting funding to the Food for Peace Title II program would leave over 41 million people without assistance.

On the recordFebruary 27, 2017
Cutting funding to the Food for Peace Title II program would leave over 41 million people without assistance.
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Mike Conaway
Texas

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Conaway highlighted the severe impact of proposed funding cuts to food assistance programs.

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