Tom Harkin: “I am confident that if we work together, we can solve this retirement crisis.”

I ask unanimous consent that Zachary Gross, Katy Crabtree, and Emalee Barto, interns with the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of today's session and that Caitlin Boon…

will the Senator from Tennessee yield? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.

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

As a boy growing up in rural Cumming, IA, population 150, I could never have imagined that I would one day serve in Congress. My father had a sixth-grade education. He spent most of his life working in coal mines, and all he had to show…