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INDIANOLA, Iowa (CNN) — Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat who recently filled the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat as chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said Sunday that a Senate health-care reform bill would include a “strong” public option and that it would get through by the holiday recess.

“That bill — mark my word, I’m the chairman — is going to have a strong public option,” he added to thunderous applause.

The Harkin Steak Fry is one of Iowa Democrats’ biggest fundraising events. This year’s keynote speaker was recently sworn-in Sen. Al Franken, D-Minnesota.

Didn’t he see the 9/12 march in DC? If he did, he doesn’t consider it meaningful. But then he pretty much dissed his constituents at town hall meetings.

He also must have missed Face the Nation (CBS)

(CBS) Moderate Republican Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said a public option in the health care bill is “universally opposed by all Republicans in the Senate” and called it “a roadblock to building the kind of consensus that we need to move forward,” on “Face the Nation” Sunday.

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