They get the benefit of knocking down jobs in the runup to the election, which I think is a disgraceful way to go about the Nation's business. But we cannot move them. The irony and the tragedy here is, if Speaker Boehner would call up this bipartisan Senate transportation bill, it would pass.
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I would say I was an early believer in Josh’s race. I served in the Senate with Tom Harkin. I know what Iowa can deliver because I saw Tom Harkin in action.
The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.
We need to get rid of dark money in our politics because it’s rotting our politics.
And when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.
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