Tom Harkin: “Well, please take a look at it, because these guidelines are just dead.”

Too many employment decisions are based on insidious stereotypes and prejudices rather than an employee's talent, ability, and qualifications.

Throughout my career, I have been guided by the vision of an America that is compassionate, just, and inclusive, a society where the government provides a ladder, or sometimes a ramp, of opportunity that will give all people equal access…

I introduced the Protect Student Borrowers Act with Senators Durbin, Warren and Murphy--and I want to thank Senator Warren for her great leadership on this issue and many other issues.

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will to meet on November 20, 2014, at 10 a.m. in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Hearing on the nomination…