Tom Harkin actually said...

"I am encouraged by your, I think, statement of support for a jobs, an education jobs bill."

"This landmark legislation eliminated wasteful corporate subsidies in the Federal student loan program and strengthened the Pell Grant program."

"We have got to put more into early learning."

"The status quo is not acceptable, and it is not acceptable during economic downturns to say that we are just going to take a lot of this out of the hide of education."