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Tom Harkin: “I did not realize until now the Senator is making the point that the average person out there, maybe listening to what I…”

On the recordOctober 23, 2000
I did not realize until now the Senator is making the point that the average person out there, maybe listening to what I said about the fact that we have not brought up or voted on a Patients' Bill of Rights or prescription drugs or Medicare or an increase in the minimum wage--we haven't brought any of those up--might say: Why don't you bring them up? The Senator has pointed it out--we cannot because we are blocked. Again I ask the Senator, to again clarify this one more time. This motion to proceed that has been here for a month and a day--is it the observation of the Senator that nothing has been done to move to that? We have not gone to that bill. It has just been sitting there.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Discussing the lack of progress on key legislation during Senate floor debate.

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