Tom Harkin actually said...

"I look forward to working with you to see how we can shoehorn this in some way."

"We have to make sure we don't go south. We have to make sure we are not seeing hundreds of thousands of people laid off."

"But this is going to have to be changed, in my view."

"I wonder from whose schoolchildren we are going to borrow this money? Because we have a looming debt crisis in our country, and we will need to debate this."