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Tom Harkin: It is a bad piece of legislation, and not just for working people, but for every American, for the Bill of Rights, and…

On the recordSeptember 14, 1998
It is a bad piece of legislation, and not just for working people, but for every American, for the Bill of Rights, and for our constitutional rights to be free to think and have our own consciences, this bill ought to be stopped in its tracks.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Opposing a piece of legislation related to workers' rights and constitutional freedoms.

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