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On the recordJuly 15, 2015
All this amendment says is that just simply on a State by State basis, identify your achievement gap and then come up with a plan to fix it--no Federal intervention, no Federal prescription of how you fix the problem. It is a big, big problem in this country that has a very simple solution in this amendment, and it deserves our support. I yield back. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Tennessee.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut
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Jul 15, 2015

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