[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 178 (Wednesday, December 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8513-S8514]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS BILL

  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, let me echo the words of our chairman and 
thank him, our staff and everyone who has worked on this and everyone 
who has supported this in a bipartisan way to send it now to the 
President to be signed into law.
  It is a great step forward. As the chairman, Senator Alexander, just 
said, the work must now begin in our schools, in our communities, and 
in our

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States to find ways to make sure all of our students achieve. We have 
put them on that, we expect them to live up to that, and that is the 
promise of this bill.
  Thank you, Mr. President.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New York.

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