Tom Harkin

They all agreed that access to mammography is critical. Especially for Medicare beneficiaries.

I believe we need to keep screening mammography in our arsenal.

We have a breast cancer epidemic in this country. Every three minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.

Breast cancer is a disease I take very seriously. I lost my only two sisters to this killer.

They believe mammograms are a very useful tool.

I am sorry I came in a little late, Madam Chair.

Every 3 minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in this country.

We made a commitment 5 years ago as a Congress, the Senate and the House, that we were going to double funding for NIH.

This is an epidemic by any yardstick or measurement.

Had they had early intervention and early screening, I daresay they would have lived a lot longer.

I want to thank her for her foresight 10 years ago in addressing this issue.

You are more than generous in your remarks about my work in this area, but I can assure you that I am just following your lead.

We ought to leave that to the experts.

We could afford it, and that is part of what Senator Harkin and I have done.

The President to impose tariffs to allow the steel industry to revitalize itself.

There is nothing more important than health.

But we really ought to be in the position of saying that States and local voting jurisdictions in a Federal election simply can't use punchcards. I think we ought to get rid of them all. I am proud that my State of Iowa, 28 years ago, got…

I also agree with Senator Roberts and Senator Lugar and thank them for working with me on the important work of expanding and enhancing conservation technical assistance. I am a strong supporter of the work done by private third parties…

I will be honored to work with the Senator to try to preserve the land in memory of John Ogonowski who was a proud farmer and a brave man. The land in Dracut, MA would stand as a fitting memorial to him. I will work, as the bill…

Obviously, this is a technical change. Obviously, it is a change of many millions of dollars.

I do not agree with the characterization by the Senator from Arizona. There were not 30 amendments to the managers' amendment dropped on the Senate just this morning--that is a fact. Some additional work on the managers' amendment occurred…

The message that I thought came through to the President very clearly in Moline, IL, was that the farm bill is the economic recovery bill for rural America; that farmers need some certainty, and that our agricultural lenders, agricultural…

I want to be honest, so for the record, according to my staff who did this research, about two-thirds of those receiving payments in Iowa get less than $7,000. The Senator's is one-fifth? Ours is one-third.

In a system such as that, my concern is the boom-and-bust cycle: Prices go all to heck for soybeans. So farmers say: OK, we are not going to plant soybeans. We are going to go to corn. So the price of soybeans booms up and then the price…

So we are trying to keep at least some stability in there so you do not have those wild swings in prices.