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Tom Harkin is a former U.S. Senator from Iowa who served from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Harkin was known for his advocacy on disability rights and health care reform. He played a significant role in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act and was a strong proponent of mental health services and education initiatives. Throughout his tenure, Harkin focused on issues affecting working families and rural communities in Iowa.
I just do not think that it is befitting a great Nation like ours, that has put so much stock in human rights and the value of children, to make sure that children are not abused, and make sure that they get a decent education, and that…
I have been contacted by a number of Iowans who have told me that Wage and Hour in Iowa is telling them that if they belong to a union, they cannot ask Wage and Hour to intervene on their behalf in resolving Family Medical Leave Act…
This would cause reduction of 27 FTEs, and significant reduction in grants for technical assistance on ending international child labor.
The fiscal year 2008 budget requests $14 million for international labor affairs. A decrease of $58.4 million from last year. An 80 percent cut.
Do you feel that DOL is doing what it can to proactively improve overall FMLA compliance and employee understanding of their rights?
Is this action by Wage and Hour in Iowa coming from some DOL directive that I do not know about, and that we have not seen?
Workforce enhancement should be treated as a matter of national competitive survival.
It is a down payment on our future. An extremely vital step to secure American competitiveness for future generations and to honor the American ideal that every single one of us deserves the opportunity to participate in America's success.
I expressed my disappointment with the small number of communications technologies approved by MSHA to date.
I just hope that young people today will look upon each one of you as role models.
What we do at NIH... leaves a legacy that just cannot be expressed in monetary terms.
We know are predictors for drug abuse and for mental health problems and for drug abuse.
By the way, Head Start is not an educational program; it is a social skills program with education added in.
But you are--somewhere in this whole big $1.4 billion, you do have research on stress that is ongoing, dealing with how stress relates to physiological problems?
Dr. Insel, would you be the proper person that I would ask this question of?
Of course, your institute is actively doing research in post-traumatic stress disorder?
This woman came back, and it did not cure her of Parkinson's, but it really alleviated the symptoms greatly for her.
I have been told that 1 out of every 3 returning Iraqi veterans... seeks mental health help some time during the first year.
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