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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 26, 2009

Again, a lot of times when we talk about people with disabilities, we think of someone that uses a wheelchair or has a physical disability.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 26, 2009

I think if we don't address the debt load on our students, we are not going to be able to draw them into primary care.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 26, 2009

But, it is going to, as you point out, save us a lot of money early on and also later on.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 26, 2009

We have got to change this, and there is a lot of talk about change.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 26, 2009

Well, let me just say, Bob, that one of the things we have to reauthorize this year is the Child Nutrition Act.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 26, 2009

I have said it to former Secretary Spellings a number of times, and I have said it to our new Secretary Duncan that we have No Child Left Behind in reading and in math, but how about no child left behind in terms of their health, just…

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 26, 2009

Well, we just had that in a hearing the other day about that, about how--first of all, a lot of physical ailments that we have in our society are traceable back to mental illnesses that people have.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 21, 2009

No matter how hard you try--you really have to try hard to be healthy in this country.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 21, 2009

Prevention played a role in Iowa's reform.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 21, 2009

We are very grateful to Senator Harkin for his leadership and foresight in working to change the focus of our system from 'a sick care system to a health care system.'

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 21, 2009

We have to reauthorize the child nutrition bill--that's the school lunch, the school breakfast, the WIC program--this year in the Agriculture Committee.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 21, 2009

As a nation, we are faced with the daunting task of stabilizing and reversing this costly epidemic.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 21, 2009

We've got to start thinking about that also; and fruits and vegetables in schools, which I've been pushing.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 21, 2009

I lost that amendment. We're up in 2010 and I'm not going to lose it this time.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 21, 2009

We can really make prevention and wellness the centerpiece of our health care reform, so people in America start thinking about it.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Jan 21, 2009

It seems to me that that's something we ought to be looking at CDCP to be doing.

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