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On the recordNovember 17, 2010
I'm kind of sick of it. Where we've got these dueling statements--and we've got one side saying, which I think is correct, and I don't know why everybody doesn't agree--that we don't attack both what's going on in the schools and have reform of what's happening in the schools, and see to it that children are living in families that have adequate incomes and they're not coming to school hungry.
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Chris Dodd
Democratic · Connecticut

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Dodd criticizes the separation of education and poverty discussions.

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