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Tom Harkin: What we can do, if we properly fund these programs, and manage them, Mr. Chairman, vice chairman, we can push the…

On the recordSeptember 28, 2010
What we can do, if we properly fund these programs, and manage them, Mr. Chairman, vice chairman, we can push the decimal point to the left, is how Senator Graham describes it.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin discusses funding strategies to reduce casualties from bioterrorism.

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