Tom Harkin actually said...

I think it's just a milestone.

This place, this Senate, this Congress, however much you may read to the contrary in the newspapers and the media, it does respond to you.

It has been a pleasure to see this critical agency revitalized under the Obama administration after years of neglect.

I think it is fair to say there is probably no committee in the Senate where the ideological differences are as split as they are on this co...