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Tom Harkin: “$967 billion and yet we have to take $54 million from the REACH program out of $967 billion.”

On the recordApril 23, 2013
$967 billion and yet we have to take $54 million from the REACH program out of $967 billion.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin highlights the disproportionate budget cuts to a vital health program.

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