Tom Harkin: “We have just got to somehow break this thing down and get these two together in how we focus education on these young…”

Both Senator Alexander and I will have opening statements.

We're making some progress. We are. We're better off than we were last year or 20 years ago.

I wish to pay tribute and to extend my thanks to an extraordinary individual, Jenelle Krishnamoorthy, who has served on my staff, with one small interruption of service, for a decade. Jenelle came to my staff in the summer of 2003 as a…

Ebola is just one example of a threat from infectious disease.