Tom Harkin: “What this debate needs is more light and less heat.”

I thank the Senator for her important question. Her understanding is correct. The definition of homeless children and youth found at 42 U.S.C. Sec. 11434A is the definition we intend to apply to homeless children and families where those…

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

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…