Tom Harkin: “Is that a law or what, regulations?”

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

Both Senator Alexander and I will have opening statements.

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…

24 years ago, on July 26, 1990, President George Herbert Walker Bush, in a glorious sun-filled day on the White House lawn, attended by more people than had ever attended a bill signing in the history of our country--President Bush signed…