Impact of the Administration's Proposed Budget Cuts on Children: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight, Committee on Ways and Means and the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, March 3, 1982U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - 320 pages |
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