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On the recordMarch 10, 1999
as my colleague knows, the language that we have in our amendment and the language which the gentleman quotes is not new language at all. It is the language that is in the Title I reauthorization of 1994, the standards that should be put in place, and it is the language which is in the Texas model. So it is not something that the gentleman from California (Mr. Miller) and I dreamed up; it is something that we voted on, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Goodling) voted for it in 1994, and it is the same language in the Texas model.
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Dan Kildee
Democratic · Michigan
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Defending the language of an amendment related to education standards during a House debate.

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