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Hare dreams of No Child Left Behind
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| Last Edited | *crickets chirp* Mar 29, 2007 01:15pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, March 29, 2007 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Even by Congress’s normally dry standards, last Friday’s hearing on the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on English-language learners was far from edge-of-your-seat viewing. So C-SPAN, which broadcast the proceeding, could not be blamed for trying to make things a little juicier by cutting away from one of the witnesses making an opening statement to capture freshman Rep. Phil Hare (D-Ill.) in the pose of someone dead asleep.
C-SPAN’s camera lingered on the immobile Hare, whose eyes appeared to be closed as he rested head on hand, for a full 10 seconds while Francisca Sanchez, the assistant superintendent of curriculum in San Bernardino County, Calif., delivered her remarks in a flat tone.
Tim Schlittner, Hare’s press secretary, however, strenuously denied that his boss nodded off even a wink.
“He did not sleep at any point in the hearing,” he said after conferring with Hare. “I am absolutely, positively confident. I don’t need to see the footage to know he was not sleeping.”
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