Tom Harkin actually said...

Now more than ever, we have the opportunity for comprehensive, meaningful health reform, and we must take bold steps where we have been timid in our policies to protect and preserve health, to rebuild what we have let crumble in public health, to help our people stay healthy and our businesses stay competitive.

01/26/2009

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