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On the recordMarch 9, 2010
How can you argue on the one hand that it is okay for a kid to borrow to go to college, but it is not all right to borrow to make sure that there is a college for the kid to go to?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin questions the inconsistency in education funding arguments.

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