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Tom Harkin: Education has been a bipartisan issue, and we need to keep it that way.

On the recordJanuary 12, 2009
Education has been a bipartisan issue, and we need to keep it that way.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Calls for continued bipartisan support for education legislation.

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