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Tom Harkin: your activity as an advocate, and as a leading light in supporting biomedical research, is what has sustained the…

On the recordJuly 5, 2009
your activity as an advocate, and as a leading light in supporting biomedical research, is what has sustained the current funding climate that makes our work actually happen.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Acknowledgment of support for biomedical research funding.

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