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Dan Coats: I thought I heard the proposal that the virtues of the market system were so wonderful that the whole thing ought to be…

On the recordJuly 9, 1998
I thought I heard the proposal that the virtues of the market system were so wonderful that the whole thing ought to be put out into the market system, and that is probably a good idea. So why--I don't understand; you can't have it both ways. You cannot try to attract it into the public sector and not provide competition in the Department of Education and yet kick everything else into the free market. So I am saying we may have the makings of a deal here. If the Senators think the whole thing ought to go in the market, why, we can probably get that done pretty quickly and it might benefit everybody. I yield the floor.
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Dan Coats
Republican · Indiana

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Discussing the balance between public sector and market solutions in education.

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