Tom Harkin

I thank Senator Isakson for being a good partner in helping to try to change some of the ways we do business with regard to coal miners.

It is my hope that this hearing shines a brighter light on these issues and helps inform our work on legislation to try to restore justice for our Nation's coal miners.

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet on July 24, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``The Role of States in Higher…

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet on July 22, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Coal Miners' Struggle for…

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet on July 17, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``More Than 1,000 Preventable…

I think we have to get a real strategy here to know why they left.

The threats of the children, the children are not threats.

Are we a country of laws? That is what the law says.

I disagree with my friend from South Carolina also that you are reinforcing bad habits with bad habits.

It sounds like we are doing dealing with cattle or some kind of livestock. Just round them up and ship them back.

There is danger in flexibility, not just because of you but because of everybody that works under you and the Border Patrol.

The children are coming because of the drug dealers.

Education is the great equalizer--it offers a lifeline to young men and women for whom a successful future is not predetermined.

No student should have to endure something so terrible as sexual assault while they are in college.

Bankruptcy has been a last resort for individuals and businesses facing severe economic hardships in need of a fresh start.

These safeguards are clearly necessary.

We finally got it together, and the one part that I've worked on is upgrading the rehab act to provide for the kind of training and skills upgrading for people with disabilities when they're young.

We need to reform Medicare, probably in the way in which your legislation that you just introduced, Senator Harkin, achieves.

Individuals should be able to make a choice about where their long-term supports and services are available, and my bill would ensure that all people with disabilities can make that choice.

That is why, today, I have introduced a bill called the Community Integration Act, a bill that ensures that people with disabilities can choose to live in the community and receive the same supports and services they would receive in…

Our national policies should no longer have a bias toward institutional care.

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet on June 24, 2014, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-106 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Moving Toward Greater Community…

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet on June 24, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Falling Through the Cracks: The…

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet on May 22, 2014, at 10 a.m. in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Examining Access and Supports for…

We want to make sure that they are aware of what they are entitled to.