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"Students who are given a stipend specifically for housing are still gaming the system, ... I would consider this to be a major failure in the oversight of the program." Tom Harkin
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"I have some real grievances on this issue, ... We have pushed for years to get a natural gas pipeline built from Alaska to the lower 48 states. If this administration had four to five years ago begun saying 'we are going to get that pipeline built', we would be a third of the way done. There are huge natural gas reserves up there. However the natural gas industry in Texas and the Gulf Coast don't want that thing built. We have plenty of natural gas up north - we should have pushed to get it down here." Tom Harkin
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"feeling of embarrassment and being ashamed our government was not responding more forcefully." Tom Harkin
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"That will have little kids associate learning, associate getting better and progressing with eating Oreo cookies," Tom Harkin
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"The industry's efforts so far have been woefully inadequate," Tom Harkin
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"This is exactly the wrong time to be lowering the wages of workers" Tom Harkin
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"We as a nation have an obligation to help rebuild, but that doesn't necessarily mean just like it was." Tom Harkin
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"Hurricane Katrina ripped the mask off of George Bush's America," Tom Harkin
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"For the benefit of the United States, for our country, I believe Mr. Rumsfeld has to resign." Tom Harkin
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"You could get into a quagmire that would ... not be a dignified ending to this sad chapter and would not add enough evidentiary value to outweigh the negatives that would be produced with a lengthy trial, ... Fox News Sunday." Tom Harkin
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"It's the midnight hour. We have to get moving on it now, not next year, not after some study group in the White House bangs this thing around for another three months." Tom Harkin
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"What we know is maybe the tip of the iceberg here," Tom Harkin
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"It's woefully inadequate, in terms of taking a look at the promising therapies that people are taking today," Tom Harkin
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"We are all human. We all make mistakes -- even a president. Most Americans share my belief that it's in our best interests to put this behind us and move on," Tom Harkin
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"He has to go. Nothing, I think, less will suffice, ... It's not enough just for Secretary Rumsfeld to say that some people in the lower ranks are responsible for this -- this goes all the way up." Tom Harkin
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"I think it's been much too negative, especially against Governor Dean," Tom Harkin
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"I know when you're the front-runner, you're going to take hits ... but there comes a point where I believe Democratic candidates ought to restrain themselves a little bit." Tom Harkin
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"Parents still lack basic information on the calorie and fat content on the meals that they and their children eat at restaurants." Tom Harkin
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"We should be preparing right now, setting appropriations, for the introductions of Bradley fighting vehicles, tanks, armored personnel carriers and ground forces into Kosovo," Tom Harkin
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"If you like the government shutdown, then you'll like this impeachment trial, because it will go on for a long time." Tom Harkin
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"These votes are going to be counted in Florida. If they're not counted now, they are going to be counted next year under Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, ... If the truth comes out next year that in fact Al Gore did win Florida ... what is that going to do for the esteem and the respect of the Supreme Court of the United States?" Tom Harkin
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