The system of relying on tax subsidies to expand the employer-based retirement system has proven a failure.
There is no rationale for providing a larger tax break to a millionaire than to a Wal-Mart cashier for the same dollar c...
Most Americans are making what you make--$35,000, $40,000, $45,000, $50,000, $55,000 a year. That is the middle class of...
You should both be commended for introducing S. Res. 664, your Sense of the Senate Resolution opposing any benefit cuts.
I am going to count on Senator Sanders to be one of our lead persons in our hearings going into next year.
Each year of raising the retirement age is a 6.5 percent cut in benefits that are already very modest.
I look forward to working together to improve the outcomes of students attending Kaplan University including its five Io...
I intend to continue this investigation to shine more sunlight on this sector of higher education.
this committee is taking the vital first steps to eliminating the bad actors within the for-profit sector.
We will be exploring legislative changes to get this system right again.
Tom Harkin will never again work in the United States Congress.
Thank you so very much, Senator Harkin, for being the champion of so many people who cannot speak for themselves or are ...
But I think our responsibility is twofold: one, to look at what's happening to the lowest income students in this countr...
I'm going to do it in the nature of our obligations as lawmakers here and representing both taxpayers and low-income stu...
I'm sure Mr. Davis is a good lawyer, and he represents the for-profit industry. Fine.
Frankly, it is hard to imagine that an educational relationship that begins with a school deliberately misleading and so...
Let me repeat that: the taxpayers' investment is $24 billion a year.
I think the plan is a good plan, from what I've been able to read about it and to take a look at it.
