Tom Harkin

We need a battle plan in which we manage the incident and we manage the fear around the incident.

I want you to know that in that letter, I am asking him to take as much charge of Homeland Security as Rumsfeld has done for Defense.

This is unacceptable.

The entire Nation has been shocked and dismayed at what transpired earlier this week in New York and at the Pentagon in Northern Virginia and in Pennsylvania. These were attacks on the American values of liberty, diversity, and tolerance…

Again, let's keep in mind that all the Smith-Harkin amendment says is: Do not use taxpayers' money to have the State Department come into court to fight our former POWs who are seeking compensation from Japanese companies that never paid…

Tom Harkin got it right. I second that.

I agree with you that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Certainly, I will work with you to address possible long term solutions for the Klamath in the Farm bill.

I appreciate my friend's pursuit of relief for his constituents. I can promise to work closely with you concerning fair drought relief funding for the farm families in the Klamath Basin.

We might as well have a dictatorship if we cannot do anything unless the President first says we are allowed to do it. I hope I am wrong. I refrained from saying anything about it since this afternoon, but it appears to me there may be a…

The National Farmers Union today applauded the Senate Agriculture Committee on its approval of $7.4 billion in emergency assistance for U.S. agriculture producers. The bill provides supplemental income assistance to feed grains, wheat…

Dear Senator Harkin: I am writing to you today to express my support for the comprehensive approach you have taken in drafting the Senate agricultural economic assistance bill. In providing important funds for nutrition and conservation…

Again, my good friend is absolutely correct. Many of us predicted during the debate on the tax cut that we would be facing precisely these impossible choices. It is upon us and it will only get worse.

Our goal with respect to the Dislocated Worker Program has always been to try to ensure that no state finds itself without the resources to meet its obligations. We believe that is accomplished through the ``hold harmless'' provisions.

Yes, my good friend is correct. We are now having to make some very, very difficult choices--really impossible choices--because the pot of resources we are working with is too small. And you have correctly stated both what the committee…

A patient should have the right to appeal an HMO's decision to deny or delay care to an independent entity and to receive a binding and timely decision and, finally, the right to hold HMOs accountable when their decisions to deny or delay…

I point out to the Senator, in all fairness, the paragraph just quoted leaves our ``pursuant to section 615(k)'' of the underlying bill which provides for that due process hearing. That is not in your amendment.

I make it clear again: On May 16 an amendment was offered by Senator Enzi of Wyoming that would have redistributed $240 million of the $1.2 billion that is going out for school repair. That amendment was defeated by a vote of 62-37. That…

For these men and women, who earn an average of $28,000 to $40,000 a year and have families to support, those expenses add up, especially for new officers. This amendment would help provide a deduction for these people when they pay for…

I ask my friend from Wyoming, I just heard the Senator say this is the authorization process and he did not want to interfere with the appropriations process. Again I ask the Senator, does not your amendment wipe out the appropriations we…

I appreciate the forthrightness of my friend from Wyoming. That is exactly what I have been saying. That is the way it is written. The $1.2 billion that will be going out to the States this summer will not be going out.

What the Enzi amendment does this year is it takes away the $1.2 billion going out to States. That has already been appropriated. He wipes that out. Then on the revolving loan fund the Senator talked about, he says ``shall be made…

Through all the years, while we may have had disagreements on one little aspect of this, I have found generally on both sides of the aisle a lot of goodwill to try to reach some consensus on how we fulfill the constitutional mandate of…

Although annual appropriations for tribal colleges have increased in recent years, the per Indian student funding is still less than two-thirds the level authorized by law and significantly lower than the public support given to mainstream…

And that shield is money. There are going to be other amendments that might focus on one thing or another. My second question for the Senator: Is it his belief, from all of his long experience involving education, that we have to look at…

I know Senator Reid understands full well the necessity to invest in education. It is a terrible burden they have in the State of Nevada now in terms of building facilities and getting teachers in classrooms they need to meet the…