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Tom Harkin: I do not think one of those votes has cost anybody an election yet, but I guess we go through that exercise.

On the recordApril 21, 2010
I do not think one of those votes has cost anybody an election yet, but I guess we go through that exercise.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin reflects on the ineffectiveness of certain Senate votes.

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