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If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

Amy Klobuchar

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Amy Klobuchar
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 25
Autobiographer
Lawyer
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United States Senator
Plymouth
Minnesota
Amy Jean Klobuchar
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