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Tom Harkin: We put the money in the ARRA... because we didn't want researchers being laid off.

On the recordMay 4, 2010
We put the money in the ARRA... because we didn't want researchers being laid off.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin explains the rationale behind funding decisions to protect researchers' jobs.

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