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Tom Harkin: “It is talking about the subsidy. It is not talking about what we spend ourselves in terms of our own military. It is…”

On the recordApril 28, 1998
It is talking about the subsidy. It is not talking about what we spend ourselves in terms of our own military. It is talking about what subsidy we provide to these countries.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Discussing military spending and subsidies to other countries.

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