Tom Harkin actually said...

If we want at the very least to preserve the existing middle class, we have to continue to extend unemployment benefits.

Emphasizing the need to extend unemployment benefits to support the middle class.

07/25/2011

More Tom Harkin Quotes

I hope it doesn't come to that.

The Constitution of the United States gives the power of the purse to Congress, not to the President.

Certainly, we took an important first step by passing, I think, the new health reform law, which will reduce the deficit.

I intend to push for a wide range of additional spending cuts, including eliminating expensive Cold War-era weapons systems.