Tom Harkin actually said...

"Do you really want to ask parents to put their children at risk for those illnesses for which we could lose herd immunity?"

"But, again, if something has been looked at scientifically and the vast majority of the scientific community, after looking at this and going through it, says there is no correlation, well, then you h..."

"If you go--probably if--I don't know, if you went to a hospital or someplace, there would probably be some reimbursement for that, I don't know."

"Our interest, obviously, is in research and finding causes, which hopefully will lead to prevention and cures."