Tom Harkin: “I appreciate that. I support streamlining that could be done over 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.

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

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…

I really do believe that Congress needs to address these concerns.