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Tom Harkin: I say to my friend, it is shameful. It is not befitting a great nation. Maybe they would like us to be a Third World…

On the recordOctober 1, 2013
I say to my friend, it is shameful. It is not befitting a great nation. Maybe they would like us to be a Third World country. I see this and I don't understand. The Senator from Illinois is right: Where is their shame? But where is their sense of responsibility? Where is their sense of being responsible to the people of this country, to have a government that works to protect them, to keep them healthy, that does the medical research that the Senator spoke about? I see that, and I don't understand why they don't grasp the kind of damage they are doing to our country. I don't understand it.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Oct 1, 2013

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