Tom Harkin: “That backlog needs to be reduced, and I'm here to say, it will be reduced.”

I look forward to her speedy confirmation.

I particularly appreciate that the students from Westwood, which closed in 2016, finally have been granted relief.

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

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will to meet on November 20, 2014, at 10 a.m. in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Hearing on the nomination…