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On the recordApril 14, 2010
I would like to thank all of you for being here today for the fourth in a series of hearings focused on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Tom Harkin opens the hearing on education reauthorization.

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