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Tom Harkin: “We have to keep working to replace sequestration. No one wants sequestration to happen, but that replacement has to be…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2012
We have to keep working to replace sequestration. No one wants sequestration to happen, but that replacement has to be bipartisan, it has to be balanced, and it is going to have to be fair for the middle class in this country who have suffered so much.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin emphasizes the need for a fair, bipartisan solution to replace sequestration.

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