Tom Harkin actually said...

I see people like Sherrod Brown and Al Franken here, as relatively new members of this committee--even though I'll be leaving in January, I'm very encouraged that the same kind of effort that's been made in the past 20 or 30 years, working on these issues, will continue.

07/20/2010

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