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Tony Thurmond: “I want to commend the able majority leader for his remarks on just what he said. Are the local people going to control…”

On the recordOctober 10, 1998
I want to commend the able majority leader for his remarks on just what he said. Are the local people going to control education or the people in Washington going to control it? I am in thorough, thorough agreement with the able majority leader in what he has had to say.
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Tony Thurmond
California

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Discussing local control of education versus federal oversight.

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