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Tom Harkin: “That is what I thought. My proposal is to change the environment. That is what we have to do. I say we have to change…”

On the recordApril 10, 2007
That is what I thought. My proposal is to change the environment. That is what we have to do. I say we have to change the environment. The American people want it changed, the scientific community wants it changed, the head of NIH--former head of NIH and 525 different advocacy groups out there want it changed. Why should one person--the President of the United States--have the say-so of what is moral and what is not moral, depending upon a time?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Discussing the need for environmental change and the influence of the President on moral decisions.

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