02/28/2012
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"I think also our inability to do budgets and appropriations on the Senate side and some of the difficulties we have had, demanded of us to change the paradigm and change the structure in which we make..."
"It's kind of professional malpractice for us to be blaming schools for the performance of a law which we haven't reauthorized in, I think, 5 years."
"I think education and transparency is invaluable in people making the right decision for themselves."
"I want to memorialize here publicly, in front of everybody, including those on television, that, Senator Murphy, I'm delighted to accept you as the replacement for Jeff Bingaman as the lead co-sponsor..."