Tom Harkin: “We've always said there needs to be a three-legged stool of Social Security, pensions and savings.”

I speak in support of the nomination of Lauren McFerran to fill an approaching vacancy on the National Labor Relations Board. I was heartened by the recent cloture vote in support of the McFerran nomination and urge my colleagues in just a…

We do think that the decisions about what is safe should be made by science and not by politics.

I look forward to her speedy confirmation.

I oppose this legislation to approve the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Again, I believe it is one more step in the wrong direction, one more capitulation to our fossil fuel habit, one more accelerant to global warming that…