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Tom Harkin: I think sometimes they do good things, other times they don't do what they should be doing.

On the recordAugust 3, 2009
I think sometimes they do good things, other times they don't do what they should be doing.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin expresses mixed feelings about the FDA's performance.

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