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On the recordMay 12, 1995
I take it the gentleman agrees with me and shares my concern that if you just implemented the raw data from the new formula, 29 States would lose, some of them as much as of 9 percent of their funding.
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Herbert H. Bateman
Virginia

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Discussing concerns about funding impacts from a new formula affecting states.

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