Tom Harkin: “I urge Congress to pass the Qualified Partition proposal this year.”

These important guarantees, however, are not self-enforcing. They're only as strong as the agency charged with enforcing them, and that's the EEOC.

As chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, the pension community approached me with their concerns that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation was interpreting section 4062(e) of the Employee Retirement Income…

Mayor de Blasio of New York now has committed--and the city council moved that 50 percent of all taxicabs in New York City will be fully accessible by 2020.

I see my friend from Tennessee here on the floor, but I want to take a few minutes on another subject. Today, December 3, is International Disability Rights Day-- International Disability Rights Day. It is observed around the globe as a…