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On the recordMarch 8, 2011
if these men were doing the same job as nondisabled people, they should have been paid the same rates.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin emphasizes equal pay for disabled individuals doing the same work as nondisabled individuals.

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