Tom Harkin: “I appreciate your comments today, and hopefully maybe if we move some legislation this year, we can also finally close…”

I thank my dear friend and colleague, long-standing in the Senate and in the House before, and to thank the Senator for her intellectual and energetic leadership on all issues concerning the environment and the health of our people and the…

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 wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will to meet on November 20, 2014, at 10 a.m. in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Hearing on the nomination…