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Tom Harkin: “I thank them for their diligence and interest in and so many of them for their efforts in bringing us to this point. It…”

On the recordMay 14, 2008
I thank them for their diligence and interest in and so many of them for their efforts in bringing us to this point. It truly is a bipartisan bill. A lot of times while I am traveling around Iowa and other States, people will come up to me and say: Can't you people get together and quit your bickering and get something done? Well, this is a time when we did that. We did get together in a bipartisan fashion on our committee and we worked hard. We got it through our committee in a day and a half. In December, we had the vote here and we had 79 votes for the farm bill. You cannot get much more bipartisan than that. So we did it. We worked together.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Closing remarks on the bipartisan support for the farm bill during Senate floor debate.

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