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Tom Harkin: I don't want any of you here at the table to take this wrongly, but all of this money won't just go to Bethesda.

On the recordMay 20, 2009
I don't want any of you here at the table to take this wrongly, but all of this money won't just go to Bethesda.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin clarifies that NIH funding benefits researchers nationwide, not just local areas.

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