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Tom Harkin

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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.

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Apr 9, 2003

Why are farmers always--248 days to approve it for dislocated farmers.

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Apr 9, 2003

I want to know where the glitch is.

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Apr 9, 2003

I don't know what that means, Secretary Chao.

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Apr 9, 2003

I mean, I'm looking at the figures. This says something to me.

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Apr 9, 2003

You're telling me with $12 million you're going to continue the program, and that it's a total commitment.

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Apr 9, 2003

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

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Apr 8, 2003

I am going to keep proposing that the President has to put that in his budget next year.

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Apr 8, 2003

I do not think you can. I think we just cannot go to zero funding for 1 year.

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Apr 8, 2003

Dr. Zerhouni, are you advising us that we should zero out all funding for renovation and building of laboratory facilities?

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Apr 8, 2003

But if we make the choice here to continue to fund extramural construction, then you will not have that money for research, will you?

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Apr 8, 2003

Well, then, Dr. Zerhouni, let me carry this one step further.

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Apr 8, 2003

Senator Specter and I are both, with his leadership and with my support, starting to get on another pathway of trying to get it up to a tripling.

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Apr 8, 2003

In fiscal year 2003, Congress funded more than $300 million for extramural construction with allergies and infectious diseases, bioterrorism.

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Apr 8, 2003

My point is, you asked for 2.6 percent.

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Apr 8, 2003

We have to push hard on that. We have to get this thing moving. And I do not know why it has not by now.

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Apr 8, 2003

I have met with families in Iowa about this. And I am concerned, as Senator Specter, that the leading cause of infant mortality is something that----

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Mar 27, 2003

I am very concerned that the supplemental request is insufficient in homeland defense.

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Mar 27, 2003

If that is the case, then there has to be some cuts in other Cabinet agencies.

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Mar 27, 2003

The President will not support more than $53.1 billion.

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Mar 27, 2003

The $400 million cut for 21st Century Community Learning Centers would mean no more after-school services for 550,000 children.

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Mar 27, 2003

The President's budget is far from adequate to help schools meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

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Mar 27, 2003

This budget is totally inadequate. And it is leaving us in a heck of a situation here to try to correct it and get the education funding back up.

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Mar 27, 2003

The $167 million cut in the Rural Education program is really not acceptable.

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