Tom Harkin: “Lastly, I say why send poor kids to poor schools? Let us help the poor kids, but let us rebuild our schools, too.”

I'm retiring from the Senate but not from the fight.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will please come to order.

Last year, only 17.6 percent of persons with disabilities had jobs, compared to 64 percent of people without a disability.

As chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, the pension community approached me with their concerns that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation was interpreting section 4062(e) of the Employee Retirement Income…