Tom Harkin actually said...

My colleagues back home asked me to deliver a strong message--please act now to help avert the looming layoffs.

Leaving States to cut education more deeply--and we already are cut to the bone--without additional Federal aid is short-sighted.

I think all of us are quite concerned about this situation.

We are borrowing too much from our kids and grandkids. We have a terrible deficit problem, debt problem.