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Tom Harkin: “What sense does it make if you have the authority for school lunches in the lunchroom or in the cafeteria, but you can…”

On the recordMarch 3, 2009
What sense does it make if you have the authority for school lunches in the lunchroom or in the cafeteria, but you can go right outside the door and there are all the vending machines.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin critiques the inconsistency of school lunch authority versus vending machine options.

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