57 percent of entrepreneurs support raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.

57 percent of small business owners support raising the minimum wage to $10.10.

If the Harkin-Miller legislation becomes law, it would mean as many as 3.8 million fewer people enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), thus reducing spending by nearly $4.6 billion a year.

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet on March 11, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Access and Cost…

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet on March 13, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Protecting the…

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet on March 12, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``From Poverty to…

I know that the National Archives and other agencies participate in FOIAonline portal, so I would like to hear from you about what we should consider when we examine this matter.

I think it severely harms the credibility of the National Archives and needs to be resolved.

During this administration has the Justice Department ever applied the foreseeable harm standard and decided not to defend an agency in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit?

we are very serious about making this FOIA work and that withholding information is not justified.

It is irresponsible for the executive branch not to have proposed an amendment of Exemption 2 since that time.

There is not any distance between you and me on this subject.

It would seem to me that the Government is falling short of achieving unprecedented transparency.

The Strong Start for America's Children Act, introduced by Senator Tom Harkin, would create and fund a State-Federal partnership.

The Strong Start for America's Children Act introduced by Senator Harkin would create and fund the State-Federal partnership that would enable States across the country to provide high-quality pre-K for 4-year-olds from every low- and…

Head Start will continue to play a key role in the transformation of education in America.

If you just said for everybody there's free breakfast and lunches, it just doesn't cost that much more money, and it's just very streamlined.

Why don't we just kind of start biting the bullet and saying, 'Look, what is so magic about the age of 5 and kindergarten?'