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Tom Harkin: You are saying your hands are tied. If you have a deficit area right next to a surplus area, you cannot take it from the…

On the recordMarch 19, 2007
You are saying your hands are tied. If you have a deficit area right next to a surplus area, you cannot take it from the surplus area and put it in the deficit area if that is needed?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
Source
congress.gov
Mar 19, 2007

Editor's note · Context

Senator Harkin questions the flexibility in funding between surplus and deficit areas.

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