Tom Harkin

I have advocated for a long time just get rid of the darn thing, get it over with, and move on.

I want to commend President George Herbert Walker Bush for his leadership.

That is lifting the cap?

We want to challenge people to step up and do more here.

Our days are very, very short. I do think we need to look at longer school years also.

I thank the Senator for allowing me a few more minutes. The point being, if we look at all tipped workers in States with a $2.13 minimum wage, the poverty rate is 16.1 percent. Where a State has a minimum wage the same for tipped and not…

They have done great work in teaching farmers and farm families how to set up systems so that kids don't get hurt.

We all have things we like and things we don't like, but we must try to refrain from making any one issue a 'deal breaker.'

We had two wars going on. 9/11 had happened. More and more money was being siphoned off for that.

I think we need to continue these important investments, not cut them and leave fewer of our students served.

I ask unanimous consent for another 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

Do you have something in your budget request that zeroes in on this?

I think it is going to be several years before the space can be identified, the funds can be found, and the completion of the retirements can be achieved.

I was struck by how the Air Force could maintain its overall end strength, overall capabilities, and its strategic depth, as well as save the taxpayer money by shifting more personnel and capabilities into the reserve components.

I believe the work of the Labor Department is the work of America.

I think finally the American people, and, certainly, the business community has been behind this forever.

I have never come away from a conversation or listening to you, Dr. Collins, without being more enlightened and more hopeful about the future.

I ask unanimous consent that Diana Hodges and Benjamin Rowland, interns from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of today's session. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

Today, thanks in large part to the leadership of Dr. Anthony Fauci, HIV is a manageable chronic disease, and we know how to prevent it.

Our country is facing a major public health problem regarding the increasing use, and abuse, of prescription painkillers.

I look forward to hearing more about this. Again, this is something that has endured through both Republican and Democratic administrations.

Our closest cousins.

I think the taxpayers of this country would not mind paying a little bit more in their taxes or the wealthy or the corporations, everybody, to know that this was going to help NIH and that is where the money was going.

Hopefully, we can come up with a good funding level for the preschool program.

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