Tom Harkin actually said...

If you just said for everybody there's free breakfast and lunches, it just doesn't cost that much more money, and it's just very streamlined.

Advocating for universal free meals in schools to reduce inefficiencies.

03/09/2014

More Tom Harkin Quotes

I hope this committee will recognize that the retirement income deficit we are leaving for the Gen Xers is at least as serious as the burden...

I am going to count on Senator Sanders to be one of our lead persons in our hearings going into next year.

The average benefit is about $14,000--less than a minimum wage income--and Social Security provides more than half the income for 55 percent...

Each year of raising the retirement age is a 6.5 percent cut in benefits that are already very modest.