Tom Harkin actually said...

"The jobs crisis in education is real. This is not something 'maybe if.' It is happening right now, and it is real."

"How can you argue on the one hand that it is okay for a kid to borrow to go to college, but it is not all right to borrow to make sure that there is a college for the kid to go to?"

"We can't just respond to something simply because it is popular in the press right now."

"I look at a jobs bill as an investment."