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On the recordFebruary 25, 2014
This place, this Senate, this Congress, however much you may read to the contrary in the newspapers and the media, it does respond to you.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin reassures that Congress responds to public pressure and advocacy.

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