Tom Harkin: “Thank you Chairman Harkin and Senator Cochran for the opportunity to support funding for public broadcasting.”

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will please come to order.

Mayor de Blasio of New York now has committed--and the city council moved that 50 percent of all taxicabs in New York City will be fully accessible by 2020.

Thank you very much, Mr. Lauer.

I will take about 3 minutes, and I would like to thank my friend from Pennsylvania for being a gentleman and letting me have a few minutes to express myself before he gives his own expression of support for this bill. First of all, I…