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Tom Harkin: I don't know how that happened. I opened up the newspaper this morning and there's a picture of pigs and hogs, as though…

On the recordApril 27, 2009
I don't know how that happened. I opened up the newspaper this morning and there's a picture of pigs and hogs, as though all of them are affected with this.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin expresses confusion over media portrayal of swine flu affecting pigs.

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