Tom Harkin: “I just wanted to point that out, that that's another little whack out there that might happen.”

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

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…

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.

These important guarantees, however, are not self-enforcing. They're only as strong as the agency charged with enforcing them, and that's the EEOC.