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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

So then why is your budget cutting a billion dollars out of workforce training and all of that?

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

I think it is one of the best faces that America can give the rest of the world. That is to help try to end this exploitative labor of children in other countries.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

It is a down payment on our future. An extremely vital step to secure American competitiveness for future generations and to honor the American ideal that every single one of us deserves the opportunity to participate in America's success.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

I expressed my disappointment with the small number of communications technologies approved by MSHA to date.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

I just hope that young people today will look upon each one of you as role models.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

You are doing some research in that, the different messages and how young people are affected by this?

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

Doctor, every Institute out there needs to do outreach.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

You are expanding a program called Human Genetics, Epigenetics, and Genomics Underlying Mental Disorders.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

Are we putting too many eggs in the basket of finding a drug that masks, that perhaps gets someone through a tough time to respond to the immediacy of a mental illness?

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

My point is, that you add them all up, and do we really know that 31 of those, given in the first 18 months--within that short span of time--each one of them may be individually fine, but do we know what the outcomes, what the impact is…

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

But if things are happening out there, that people are having success with, I would think that NIH would want to look at it.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

I wasn't prepared to have you here, either.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

As I understand it, in the beginning you do have face-to-face involvement with the families, is that correct?

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

I think, when my kids were born we had a couple, maybe three shots, but we didn't have this long list.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

The one thing I just won't do--even though I have friends who have--is get divorced just to qualify for additional benefits.

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