Tom Harkin

We have got to get more--that is why this whole Cover the Uninsured--we have got to get information out to people as to the accessibility of some of these places where they can go.

That has been my observation of community health centers is that they do provide that preventive health care.

I know both Senator Specter and I have been strong advocates of the community health center system.

I think it is always important as both you and Ms. Kane--well, as all of you have--to put a human face on this.

We need to do something now to make health care more affordable.

I would be the first to say that I do not have the answer.

We can't permit our citizens the right that they ought to have--like we can sue governments, we can't sue the government of Iran.

I just hope Senators will go by and, rather than saying they are going to vote for Sutton, will strike another blow for civil rights in this country and tell the assembled people with disabilities out here in this reception room that we…

Mr. President, what is going to happen when we come back, there will be at some point soon after we get back from our break, a vote up or down on the Senate floor on whether or not the Senate will advise and consent to approving President…

To try to compare it to publicly held corporations, why is that analogous?

Well, what does a privately held company with the same receipts have to report?

Are these under State courts? Are these Federal cases you bring?

You've got 11 criminal convictions a month on what, criminal convictions of whom, of what?

Convictions, by you or by whom? Convictions by whom?

When you submit the comparisons, don't just use publicly held corporations.

10 of the top 20 largest unions have no what?

Is that because the OLMS is prohibited by law from auditing them?

Has any of those top 10 of the top 20 unions that you say they've never been audited by OLMS, are you aware if they've ever been audited with outside auditors?

Well, I would say that in a union they have some because the union officers are elected.

You mean publicly held corporations.

Something's not adding up.

Let me just tell you, there is one grant that came in on October 18 of 2002. That's been 164 days now.

I don't know whether it's the bureaucracy or whatever it is, but you're in charge of the bureaucracy. They work for you.

So you're not doing any better now than you've ever done.

Well, I just think the length of time is just unacceptable, how long it's taking.