Tom Harkin actually said...

"It is critical that we effectively utilize every tool at our disposal to create jobs, put our economy back on track, and reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil."

"The only thing that is really standing between us and keeping this $300 billion in the American economy is the resolve to fix the problem."

"People keep talking about these clean energy jobs, and to me this is the way we can get there very quickly."

"We just cannot keep going like this when we know that there is this opportunity out there for our country."