Tom Harkin

I would like to speak just for a few minutes about the issue of the NATO expansion that has come to the floor today. I am hopeful at the outset that even though the bill has been laid down, the Senate will be given time for due discussion…

Basically, we see this figure bandied about that it is going to cost $1.5 billion. That is common costs. There are other national costs to which we have committed to subsidize. Already, just in the past 2 years, the figures that we have…

I am pleased today to join many of my colleagues in support of the ``Women's Health Research and Prevention Amendments of 1998.'' This legislation, introduced by my distinguished colleague, Senator Bill Frist, and cosponsored by nearly all…

for example, I want to read a couple of things from the article. It says: House Majority Leader Dick Armey has thrown his weight behind a bill that would ban human cloning permanently. ``This is the right thing to do, at the right time…

first, let me commend my friend and colleague, Senator Kennedy, for his long-time commitment and leadership on this issue, among many others, but especially on this issue

last evening, President Clinton did the right thing, did the right thing for this country and did the right thing for our farmers and for people who live all across rural America

I ask unanimous consent privilege be granted to Yvonne Byrne of my staff for the duration of the debate on this bill

I think that gives us some hope that we can work together here, we can negotiate out some differences, and we can come up with a bill that the President will sign and that will, indeed, benefit our producers.

I join Senator Mikulski and many of my colleagues today to support reauthorization of the Mammography Quality Standards Act. I want to especially commend Senator Mikulski for her invaluable leadership on this issue. She brought the problem…

I rise to introduce a bill requiring studies of the health effects of nuclear weapons testing. This would build upon the study by the National Cancer Institute that was released October 1 of this year. On October 1, following some major…

In my remaining time, Mr. President, I would like to explain why my amendment that I will be offering on fast track deals specifically with exploitative child labor in a way that will enhance and strengthen the President's position. Now…

I want to speak a little about the fast-track bill that is before us and which is scheduled to be voted on in the House tonight. I doing so, I reread the President's speech on September 10 that he gave on fast track. He gave it at the…

I especially wish to thank Senator Specter, our chairman, and his staff for the skill they have demonstrated and the cooperation which they have given us in putting this bill together and working out the many compromises that were…

I, too, appreciate the leadership of my colleague from New Jersey on this issue, and concur with the Chairman that the NIH should give appropriate consideration to proposals from the International Center for Public Health.

Today Senator Mack and I, joined by a strong bipartisan group of our colleagues, are introducing legislation that would prevent tobacco companies from claiming the settlement or judgement payments as a tax-deductible expense, and use the…

earlier this week an expert scientific panel at the National Institutes of Health strongly endorsed acupuncture as an effective treatment for certain conditions. This is the first time that the NIH has endorsed a major alternative therapy…

If we can protect a song, we can protect a child. That is my bottom line on this. What do they do with child labor? Oh, it is back here on page 18, "It's the policy of the United States to reinforce trade agreements process by seeking to…

I thank the Chair. Mr. Huber, in his article in Forbes said: Here's why stock prices are really supposed to fall. Employment rates rise above some critical flash point. So wages rise sharply. So prices of goods rise-- just as rising wages…

I want to point out that just 2 weeks after this article appeared, the Fed launched one of its preemptive strikes, despite admitting the fact that there was no accelerated inflation, and raised interest rates again. The issues that are…

Again, Mr. President, because of the new labor pool that is there and because of the international marketplace, because of increasing technology and productivity, I believe the economy can continue to expand for some period of time, at…

I appreciate the position the majority leader is in. Quite frankly, I think that the occasion of considering a couple of nominees to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors should be a time of some debate and some discussion on the Senate…

Again, I am also concerned that the nominees that will be shortly before us to the Board of Governors seem equally frightened by this ghost of inflation. For example, nominee Roger Ferguson said in his testimony before the Senate Banking…

16 months ago we had a debate on the nomination of Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve System. I argued at that time that he was far too concerned about a possible increase in the rate of inflation and had far too little…

I am sorry. The Office of Alternative Medicine has 14 employees, the last count I had, and its budget next year is $13 million out of $13 billion at NIH. That is one-tenth of 1 percent. Huge? I beg to differ. There are only two changes…

the Senator from Texas may say she wants to preserve and keep the National Endowment for the Arts, but this really is a stealth amendment. This is the stealth amendment that will kill the NEA. It will do great damage to a lot of our small…