Tom Harkin: “I happen to think the community health center has been one of the great underpinnings of our health system in America.”

We do think that the decisions about what is safe should be made by science and not by politics.

I wish to thank Chairman Harkin for his superlative service to the State of Iowa and to our Nation for more than four decades.

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

I want to speak in support of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014, the bill that is before us. It has taken us a long time to get to this point. I cannot be more pleased that we are on the verge of sending this…