Tom Harkin: “I have here a recent letter that 56 members of the Senate signed.”

The bill called the Community Integration Act that I introduced earlier this year to get rid of the Medicaid institutional bias--well, it's there.

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

I thank my dear friend and colleague, long-standing in the Senate and in the House before, and to thank the Senator for her intellectual and energetic leadership on all issues concerning the environment and the health of our people and the…

I wish to thank Chairman Harkin for his superlative service to the State of Iowa and to our Nation for more than four decades.