02/08/2012
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"I hope it would make my colleagues, as we invest in this program, confident that there are statistically significant bottom lines."
"This is not an ideological battle, it is a battle for civil rights."
"It takes three to tango here in the Congress--which is to say the President, the Senate, and the House--to get anything adopted."
"I served on the D.C. Council for 12 years. I was chairman of the education committee. I am a lifelong Democrat."