Tom Harkin actually said...

Well, how can we be helpful both on the authorizing end, but also on this end, the Appropriations Committee, if there are things that we need to pilot or we need to look at in terms of boosting some funds some place, to enhance that, I would like to know your thoughts on that.

06/02/2009

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