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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Dec 12, 2007

Got to start kids at school earlier. You got to put them in smaller classes; the smaller the class, the better the outcome. In order to do that, you need 100,000 more teachers. You got to pay teachers.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Dec 12, 2007

You got to start kids at school earlier. You got to put them in smaller classes. The smaller the class the better the outcome. In order to do that you need 100,000 more teachers and you got to pay teachers.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Dec 12, 2007

We've got to turn off the TV set. We've got to put away the video game. And we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity; it is something that we have to be actively engaged in.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Dec 12, 2007

But we can only do it if we have the courage to change, if we can bring the country together.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Dec 12, 2007

We can only do it if we have the courage to change, if we can bring the country together.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Dec 12, 2007

We have to turn off the TV set, we have got to put away the video game and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity. It is something that you have to be actively engaged in.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Dec 12, 2007

We need to put those tax breaks and tax loopholes back into the pockets of hardworking Americans.

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Jeff Bingaman
@jeffbingaman· Democratic · NM· Dec 12, 2007

it is certainly my intention, as one of the amendment's authors--that FERC's authority over RTOs would be unaffected.

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