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Tom Harkin: Will the Senator work with me to ensure that the current USAID Administrator and the Administrator in the new…

On the recordOctober 25, 2000
Will the Senator work with me to ensure that the current USAID Administrator and the Administrator in the new administration provides $30 million for global polio eradication for fiscal 2001?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Requesting funding for global polio eradication during a discussion on USAID.

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