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Tom Harkin: “as part of my closing remarks, in case an objection was raised to the Training for Realtime Writers Act, I want to say…”

On the recordDecember 12, 2007
as part of my closing remarks, in case an objection was raised to the Training for Realtime Writers Act, I want to say this is something that can be done already by the administration, but I would point out that they have not done it in 10 years, either Democratic or Republican Presidents. Quite frankly, they are not focusing on it. They have said they can do it as part of their high-growth job training initiative, but they haven't done it. That is the point of the legislation. They have not done this. And for those interested in earmarks around here, 90 percent of the money in the high-growth job training----
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Discussing the Training for Realtime Writers Act and the lack of action by the administration on job training initiatives.

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