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Tom Harkin: “It seems to me, if you are on a highway in a car, and you are headed towards a cliff and there is a bend in the road…”

On the recordSeptember 7, 2004
It seems to me, if you are on a highway in a car, and you are headed towards a cliff and there is a bend in the road that you can take and it will save you, what sense does it make to keep going straight off the cliff?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Discussing the need for a change in direction regarding policy decisions.

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