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Tom Harkin: Ninety percent of the money is noncompetitive. Over $235 million over 6 years has gone out in noncompetitive grants, and…

On the recordDecember 12, 2007
Ninety percent of the money is noncompetitive. Over $235 million over 6 years has gone out in noncompetitive grants, and not one penny for real-time writers.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Discussing the allocation of noncompetitive grants in a Senate speech.

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