Tom Harkin: “What is this effort? What has been achieved?”

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

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

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…

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…