Tom Harkin: “I feel we must reorient our health care system so that it focuses on preventing diet-related illnesses and promoting…”

We do think that the decisions about what is safe should be made by science and not by politics.

Ebola is just one example of a threat from infectious disease.

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 pay tribute and to extend my thanks to an extraordinary individual, Jenelle Krishnamoorthy, who has served on my staff, with one small interruption of service, for a decade. Jenelle came to my staff in the summer of 2003 as a…