10/28/2009
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"Thank you for being here."
"I have always been very, very proud--a lot of the ideas that I have championed over the years... have come from this State."
"There is about a 20 percent increase in kids in school who are homeless, and one quarter--only one quarter of homeless children graduate from high school nationally."
"Thank you for the opportunity to testify at the second hearing in this series on the State of the American Child."