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Scott Klug: “I just want to understand, tell me what it is in 1995 that makes a distressed county in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or…”

On the recordJuly 12, 1995
I just want to understand, tell me what it is in 1995 that makes a distressed county in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or Alabama eligible for funds when the same distressed application does not apply to the other 37 States?
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Scott Klug
Republican · Wisconsin

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Questioning the criteria for federal funding eligibility for distressed counties.

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