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Tom Harkin: “Mr. President, we are in the midst of a historic week in this Nation's Capital. Health care reform is no longer a bill…”

On the recordMarch 24, 2010
Mr. President, we are in the midst of a historic week in this Nation's Capital. Health care reform is no longer a bill; it is the law of the land. It has been signed. Just as the history books remember 1935 as the year FDR signed Social Security into law, and 1965 as the year when Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law, they will now remember the year 2010 as the year President Barack Obama signed comprehensive health reform into law. Each of these three bills marked a giant step forward for the American people.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Mar 24, 2010

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Harkin discusses the significance of health care reform being signed into law.

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