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Tom Harkin: It has turned into almost an open spigot of taxpayers' dollars being siphoned off to hedge funds, Wall Street.

On the recordJuly 26, 2011
It has turned into almost an open spigot of taxpayers' dollars being siphoned off to hedge funds, Wall Street.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin criticizes the financial exploitation of taxpayer funds by for-profit educational institutions.

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