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Tom Harkin: “We should honor Congressman Rangel and others who have served with distinction as he has. CBS brought out that the…”

On the recordOctober 18, 2007
We should honor Congressman Rangel and others who have served with distinction as he has. CBS brought out that the college had not made the decision or at least would not make the decision as to how to name the center. So there were a lot of questionable things that came up in this report, questions enough that CBS decided to make it news. My point is, if we get into the practice as Members of Congress while we are still serving of responding to centers being named after us by getting taxpayer dollars back to them and getting personal offices in buildings around the country, this is clearly not our purpose, and it is not one that will be respected by the American people.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Discussing the implications of naming centers after Members of Congress and the use of taxpayer dollars.

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