Tom Harkin

I agree. We need to continue this program so that the well-established network of local housing organizations can continue to provide these needed services. That is why our subcommittee provided an additional $1,000,000 specifically for…

Yes. The legislation is intended to provide funds to the network of housing providers in the migrant community and not to be used for discretionary purposes.

The Senators from Maine and Rhode Island may be assured that I will seek conference language to ensure that $16 million in SAMHSA funds are earmarked for substance abuse treatment for the homeless, and I congratulate them for their…

Programs that link treatment to other health, housing, social and maintenance services often provide the best opportunity for the homeless to adhere to treatment programs, and ultimately achieve stability in their lives.

I certainly understand and share her and Senator Bingaman's commitment to the important Hispanic-serving institutions program. These colleges and universities are very important to the academic and economic success of Hispanics in our…

The lack of progress in reducing maternal morbidity and mortality is unacceptable. This committee strongly supports the goals identified at the summit, including expanding the CDC's safe motherhood initiatives. We must look at the public…

As the Senator mentioned, this is a very tightly drafted bill and there are many important areas in which the Senate bill provides greater resources than the House. Like you, I realize the importance of the Healthy Start Program, and while…

That is correct. So this Senator from Arizona wants to boost up impact aid construction. This is really to take away school construction money. I don't think we need to talk anymore about it. We all know what this is about.

Also, the amendment of the Senator from Oklahoma reduced impact aid construction. I don't care what you say. It puts it into the basic impact aid.

I respond to my friend from New Hampshire, there is a chart that is being passed out that has fiscal year 2001, and it has Landrieu, then it has Gregg, and it looks as if the Gregg amendment gives a lot more to each of these States the…

Lastly, I say why send poor kids to poor schools? Let us help the poor kids, but let us rebuild our schools, too.

I appreciate and thank Senator Carnahan and Senator Bond for bringing this important issue to our attention. I am concerned that attempts to recoup Medicaid dollars from their state could jeopardize the health care it provides for hundreds…

I am appreciative of the Senator from Utah's efforts as well. It is no secret here that he is the world's number one proponent of dietary supplements. He has done an effective job of helping promote the public health through safe dietary…

It is our hope that the funding provided in our amendment will allow the FDA to devote additional staff to this effort. In so doing, we will be making great strides toward assuring Americans--be they farmers in Iowa, athletes in Utah…

I am in complete agreement. It astounds me that we could add so many new authorities to the law and have it called ``deregulation.'' I am affronted by any suggestion that the majority of both bodies of Congress could have endangered the…

Mr. President, so what our amendment does today is help the FDA make enforcement of DSHEA a top priority. I want to emphasize as Senator Hatch did that the vast majority of dietary supplements are marketed safely and legally, by…

I am aware of this, and this is a situation we must work to rectify. Despite the best efforts of those of us who serve on the Appropriations Committee, the FDA is not getting the budget it deserves. In fact, Senator Hatch and I had hoped…

Implementation of this Act has not been a top priority of the Food and Drug Administration.

So that there was absolutely no question about the FDA's authority in this area, during the debate on DSHEA we made clear that the FDA maintained its ability to act against false and misleading claims under section 343(a)(1) of the Federal…

If I could just amplify on that. To address any lingering concerns our colleagues might have that the FDA did not have adequate authority to act against an unsafe supplement, we provided an additional sixth tool to the Secretary of Health…

It is amazing to me, and a complete indication of how little-enforced DSHEA is, that the FDA has apparently never invoked this section of the law. We hope to correct that deficiency with our amendment today.

The second tool DSHEA provided to FDA is the authority to promulgate new GMPs specifically for dietary supplements. Those regulations have been in development for the past several years, a source of great frustration to me and the Senator…

It is a broad coalition, from farm groups to labor unions to consumer groups to parent teachers. It covers the entire spectrum of the food safety chain from farm to table. Now, some may be surprised there is meat and poultry industry…

It is true, there was this indication that someone in the Department, probably at the behest of the industry lawyers, maybe the same one who brought the Supreme Beef case, I don't know, decided they would relax the salmonella standards on…

I am sending a letter to Governor Ridge. I have great respect for Governor Ridge.