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Tom Harkin: “You touted the conservation program. Last night you said you fought for a strong conservation title in the farm bill.…”

On the recordOctober 9, 2004
You touted the conservation program. Last night you said you fought for a strong conservation title in the farm bill. And now you are taking money out of conservation to pay for disasters. Please, Mr. President, I am telling you, get ahold of your people who are at OMB--your people. They work for you. Get them on the phone right now and tell them, this agricultural disaster money ought to come out of emergency assistance, just like you proposed for the hurricanes, and not out of farmers' own pockets.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Addressing the allocation of funds for agricultural disaster relief during Senate debate.

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