Tom Harkin actually said...

If you are a graduate student, you are probably going to get a pretty good job when you get out.

Arguing that graduate students can handle interest payments due to expected job prospects.

07/26/2011

More Tom Harkin Quotes

I hope this committee will recognize that the retirement income deficit we are leaving for the Gen Xers is at least as serious as the burden...

I am going to count on Senator Sanders to be one of our lead persons in our hearings going into next year.

The average benefit is about $14,000--less than a minimum wage income--and Social Security provides more than half the income for 55 percent...

Each year of raising the retirement age is a 6.5 percent cut in benefits that are already very modest.