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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.
The question is, Has the investigation been tainted so far? One instance which comes to this Senator's mind is when the Department of Justice announced an official investigation but they waited for days to notify the White House. I ask the…
I say to my friend, my feelings and my senses are that someone with this kind of information who leaked it I think has violated the law and betrayed the government and the citizens of the United States.
Ten years or a $50,000 fine. A crime has been committed. I say to the Senator, here we are going on day after day, and there is a lot of stuff going around the White House and the Attorney General's office. Is it the judgment of the…
Forget about the Washington Post. On March 17 the administration said it would spend $820 million.
I do not know how much time we have left, but I want to get into a bit on Afghanistan.
This is why we are concerned that the administration will keep coming back for more and more money for Iraq.
What happened to the administration's July plan not to ask for additional moneys for Afghani reconstruction?
So this is half the GDP. I'm just saying, if you were spending that much on reconstruction in the United States, half the GDP, it would be $5 trillion in 1 year in the United States.
I share Senator Reid's support for the CDC's Chronic Disease Comprehensive Cancer program. As someone who has dedicated a good deal of my career to advancing treatment and services for people with cancer, I especially appreciate the…
During the crisis, the HELP Committee met on multiple occasions to study this important issue. I want to thank my friend from Pennsylvania and join him in affirming that it was our intent to use funding in this bill to stockpile a 6-month…
I, too, am very concerned by the President's elimination of this successful program. I look forward to working with Chairman Specter to restore funding in conference.
Last week, I offered an amendment in support of our Nation's children's hospitals. My amendment would equalize the funding that children's hospitals receive compared to adult hospitals. Specifically, the amendment would provide an…
I agree with my colleague about the valuable role of children's hospitals in providing pediatric care and research. I have agreed to withdraw my amendment, but I urge the senior Senator from Pennsylvania to continue working to provide in…
I want to repay in kind the kind words Senator Specter just said. We have had a back and forth chairmanship/ranking member now going back 13 years. It has been a seamless transfer of the gavel. We worked very closely together all these…
Would the Senator say further that this change in this regulation not only affects the families that need this student aid, the young people going to college who need the student aid but, again, when they get the student aid, they use it…
Is the Senator saying there could be young men and women in Iowa who are in college who are getting Pell grants, eligible for Pell grants today, who, because of this change in this Department of Education regulation--not a law, but a…
Would the Senator state what that would mean? Give me some idea what that might mean for a family in Iowa that applied for student aid, has been getting student aid, a son or daughter going to a private college--Simpson College or…
The point is, not everyone is here today, Monday, not even on your side or our side, but everyone is going to be here tomorrow; so that Thursday night there was sort of a gentlemen's agreement... that we would set a time on Tuesday to vote…
The leader has it correct. I feel so strongly about this, and the fact that we worked with the leadership on the other side and on this side to try to get a finite list of amendments, to get a time certain on Tuesday to vote on this so…
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