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Marsha Blackburn: “We need to be looking at this at the federal level and indeed the states are the labs for innovation.”

On the recordJune 17, 2012
We need to be looking at this at the federal level and indeed the states are the labs for innovation.
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee

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Blackburn advocates for federal learning from state-level innovations.

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