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Tom Harkin: I think we ought to get this bill out of here, send it into the countryside, let people see it, and come back in…

On the recordNovember 22, 2003
I think we ought to get this bill out of here, send it into the countryside, let people see it, and come back in February rather than taking Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Let us, as I said, take a week or two to get into this bill, debate it, discuss it, and yes; and amend it if we need to, rather than being ramroded through as they are doing. If the seniors reject it, then we can reject it and go back to the drawing board. We should not at the eleventh hour when people want to go home for Thanksgiving be stampeded to support a bad bill, a bill that will destroy Medicare as we know it.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Opposing a bill related to Medicare during Senate floor debate.

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