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On the recordNovember 4, 2009
Every year numerous qualified, hard-working Americans are denied job opportunities, are terminated, or experience on-the-job discrimination merely because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT).
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin highlights the discrimination faced by LGBT individuals in the workplace.

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