Tom Harkin actually said...

"I appreciate that. I will follow-up with you further on the continuation of your effort to help other countries set up their own CDCs."

"This bill honors significant investments this committee made in those programs just last year."

"Our days are very, very short. I do think we need to look at longer school years also."

"We all have things we like and things we don't like, but we must try to refrain from making any one issue a 'deal breaker.'"