03/31/2009
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"My colleagues back home asked me to come here to deliver a strong message--please act now to approve additional Federal aid targeted to help avert the looming layoffs that will reach into almost every..."
"Teachers are not the problem here. We are the solution."
"the Federal Government is really giving with one hand and taking away with another because the new healthcare bill, between 2014 and 2019, is going to add between $1.1 billion and $1.5 billion of cost..."
"what we are really doing with this Federal takeover of the student loan program is borrowing money from 19 million students."