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Michael Bennet: “Our literacy rates in this nation are the lowest they have been for 30 years.”

Featuring: Michael Bennet, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Colorado

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We do. And we have been both at the greatest moments in this country's history. I'm sorry to say we haven't done any of that. I mentioned education earlier. I mentioned Our literacy rates in this nation are the lowest they have been for 30 years. So now we're going into this recess. We've all come out here this afternoon to do our procedural motions on this floor about various things that we didn't get done. (14:54–15:01)

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Asserts a decline in national literacy rates over the past 30 years.

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