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Tom Harkin: “This was the law. How can they change the law?”

On the recordAugust 8, 2013
This was the law. How can they change the law?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

Editor's note · Context

Harkin questions the legality of changing the law without legislative amendment.

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