Tom Harkin: “Are you doing any research into this?”

Throughout my career, I have been guided by the vision of an America that is compassionate, just, and inclusive, a society where the government provides a ladder, or sometimes a ramp, of opportunity that will give all people equal access…

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…

Ebola is just one example of a threat from infectious disease.

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