Tom Harkin actually said...

We know that in the years immediately ahead, we must take aggressive and painful and unpopular steps to bring this deficit under control.

Harkin emphasizes the need for tough measures to control the deficit.

02/04/2011

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The minimum wage in fact is worth 31 percent less than at its peak in 1968.

Senator Harkin gave the numbers on the erosion in the buying power of the minimum wage.