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Tom Harkin: “Is the Senator then saying that the cost of this is going to escalate greatly in the future, that it is not $400…”

On the recordApril 28, 1998
Is the Senator then saying that the cost of this is going to escalate greatly in the future, that it is not $400 million, it is going to be something much above that because we are going to subsidize a lot of sales? Is that what the Senator is saying?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Questioning the projected costs of a subsidy during Senate debate.

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