09/15/2010
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"I have opposed many voucher programs because they did take money from public schools, but that is not the case here."
"I greatly appreciate your leadership on numerous issues of great importance to the District of Columbia, our Nation's capital, especially, I want to say, on voting rights."
"We wanted this hearing to be fair--a fair and open consideration of the pros and cons of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program."
"I applaud, as this Committee does, the work of my successor, Mayor Adrian Fenty, and our chancellor, Michelle Rhee, in giving unprecedented authority to the D.C. public school administration to act bo..."