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Tom Harkin: It almost is like that AIDS epidemic. We've just got to get to it.

On the recordMarch 19, 2007
It almost is like that AIDS epidemic. We've just got to get to it.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
Source
congress.gov
Mar 19, 2007

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Senator Harkin compares the urgency of autism research to the AIDS epidemic.

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