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Tom Harkin: “I really believe my colleague's amendment would upset that balance greatly. And even though we might want to do more for…”

On the recordDecember 12, 2001
I really believe my colleague's amendment would upset that balance greatly. And even though we might want to do more for nutrition, I believe we have met our responsibilities for nutrition in this bill to meet the nutritional needs of our people. I will go through that shortly. I did want to correct one thing. I believe my colleague and friend said that on nutrition our spending over 5 years is $1.6 billion. Our data shows that our outlays for 5 years are $2.2 billion. I just wanted to make that correction. I think his is $3.7 billion and we are at $2.2 billion.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Discussing differences in nutrition funding proposals during Senate floor debate.

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