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Barbara Boxer: Will the Senator yield? I said national standards, not a national program. I said national standards.

On the recordMay 16, 1996
Will the Senator yield? I said national standards, not a national program. I said national standards.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Clarifying her position on national standards during a Senate debate.

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