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Tom Harkin: “I am in complete agreement. It astounds me that we could add so many new authorities to the law and have it called…”

On the recordOctober 25, 2001
I am in complete agreement. It astounds me that we could add so many new authorities to the law and have it called ``deregulation.'' I am affronted by any suggestion that the majority of both bodies of Congress could have endangered the public health in a way these news reports have falsely claimed. That simply was not the case, and I hope whomever is planting all these inaccuracies will stop.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Addressing concerns about deregulation and public health in Congress.

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